A single femur found in Bulgaria appears to represent an ape or early hominin that walked on two legs before any known African hominin, but the evidence is far from conclusive ...
SETI has spent decades listening for a sharp, well-defined radio signal that could indicate it was sent by distant intelligent life. Now researchers believe that space weather could distort and blur s ...
Sonselasuchus cedrus, discovered in fossils from Arizona, was a crocodile relative from the Triassic period that grew into an ...
It's been 10 years since Go champion Lee Sedol lost to DeepMind's AlphaGo. Has the technology lived up to its potential?
Models show that as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation gets weaker, the Gulf Stream will drift northwards. There ...
The Alzheimer’s field is being turned on its head as mounting evidence points to the disease beginning outside the brain many ...
Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...
Microplastics have been found accumulating everywhere from our water to our body tissues, but many of the claims have come ...
The US and Iran are trading blows in the Gulf with a simple drone that costs as little as $50,000 to make. But why is a slow, ...
Physicists are scrambling to understand why dark energy is weakening. In a surprising twist, we must now reconsider the ...
Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...
Taking psilocybin – the psychedelic component of magic mushrooms – eased symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder among ...