A new study put giraffes to the test with hidden containers of carrots and some sneaky arithmetic, and the results left ...

Coursera has identified five university courses that are generally considered easier to study. Find out which programmes made ...

If you’re a serious runner, tennis player, backpacker, skier or even ballet dancer, you’ve probably heard from well-meaning ...

New research determined that the mysterious death of a ruler from the powerful Florentine Medici family was due to illness, ...

Without additional observations, scientists gave up on trying to identify this peculiar primate and turned their attention to ...

Homo erectus may have left a detectable genetic trace in living humans through ancient interbreeding with Denisovans.

17 ancestral remains and one sample of human hair have today been returned to the people of Rapa Nui Easter Island by the ...

A 1,600-year-old mummy discovered in Egypt has revealed something archaeologists had never seen before: a fragment of Homer’s ...

Against the background of the heat wave in the UK, the ancient practice of praying for rain has been discussed again. The authors of the study, published in the Daily Mail newspaper, decided to find ...

At the beginning of lockdown, seeking reassurance that the coronavirus, while clearly sub-optimal, was not necessarily an ...

A public lecture at Galen University this evening is set to shed new light on the lives and family connections of the ancient ...

In the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), scientists have identified a previously unknown species of African monkey – one of the rarest discoveries in modern primatology. Named ...