The government's vision for higher education in England, set out in a recent policy paper, includes some changes that will ...

Nations sealed a modest deal at the UN climate summit in the Amazon Saturday, as Europe and others dropped their demands for ...

For Las Vegas to keep its taps flowing, Rep. Susie Lee says this one drought measure must survive federal spending purges: ...

As the Trump administration carries out what many observers say are illegal military strikes against vessels in the Caribbean ...

As the climate crisis accelerates, there's a desperate need to rapidly reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, both ...

The study of an assemblage of Neanderthal human bones discovered in the Troisième caverne of Goyet (Belgium) has brought to ...

If I asked you to imagine your dream snog, chances are it wouldn't be with a Neanderthal; burly and hirsute as they may be.

Marine animals inevitably eat what we toss in the ocean, including pervasive plastics—but how much is too much?

Many different forms of data allow us to observe changes to the climate. We have long-running weather stations we can use to track temperature and rainfall changes, as well as newer technologies such ...

Centuries before Monopoly, there was Patolli, a high-stakes Mesoamerican game of strategy and luck where players wagered ...

A new analysis published in the journal BioScience challenges conventional conservation approaches by demonstrating that ...

When militia attacks disrupted shipping lanes in the Red Sea, few imagined the ripple effects would reach the clouds over the ...