Excavations in the Côa valley in Portugal, the world’s largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues ...

Since 1972, officials have added 27 leap seconds to the universal clock, but in a meeting this week in France they have ...

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Hundreds of children have died of starvation and disease in a drought in Sudan caused by the record-breaking El Niño. The ...

A 75,000-year-old skeleton offers a glimpse into the violent world in which Neanderthals lived, but also offers hints that ...

Newly introduced testosterone screening in the US Army could find more than 100,000 male soldiers with low testosterone ...

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Starting in January, students attending Skyview High School in Virginia will learn about the building blocks and principles ...

Error-proofing the most important operations performed on a quantum computer has so far required lots of resources, but a new ...

Computer models suggest that unrealistically cold oceans would be insufficient to stop Thwaites glacier retreating, although ...

Invictibellatrix amberina, a predator in the megaraptoran group of dinosaurs, lived in what is now Britain 120 million years ...

The Monte Verde sites in Chile have been the source of arguments among archaeologists for decades. Columnist Michael Marshall ...