As ancient humans left Africa, they encountered many harsh environments including the Sahara and the high Arctic, but one of ...

Keith Thomas, a man in his 40s with no sensation or movement in his hands, is able to feel and move objects by controlling ...

A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius.

What you eat has a surprising impact on the pH of your body with wide ranging impacts on your health. But getting the balance ...

The equatorial regions of Mars are home to unexpectedly enormous layers of ice, and they may have been put there by dramatic ...

Progesterone, oestrogen and testosterone can be detected in skeletons over 1000 years old, offering a way to identify ...

Decades ago, a renegade physicist suggested that gravity isn't so much a force as just a byproduct of the universe's tendency to get more disordered. Now this idea might finally be testable ...

Babies born too soon seem to have stronger connections in one of the major brain areas that supports language processing if ...

Stars often fall into black holes, and now it seems the opposite can also occur, producing an extra long-lasting explosion as ...

Claims that one quantum computer is better than another rest on terms like quantum advantage or quantum supremacy, ...

Record-breaking ocean temperatures have caused widespread bleaching and death among warm-water corals, which could have ...