Gases collected from boiling mineral springs in Zambia contain the chemical signature of having come directly from the ...

An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may have originated 500,000 ...

Genetic analysis of 1039 people buried in Britain between the Bronze Age and the Norman conquest highlights the impact of the ...

The rules governing gravity and other laws of nature seem like eternal truths, but cosmologist João Magueijo has always ...

We will finally begin to untangle Mercury’s mysteries in 2026, as the BepiColombo spacecraft descend into orbit around the solar system’s innermost planet. BepiColombo consists of a pair of spacecraft ...

Around 175,000 years ago, Neanderthals ventured deep inside a cave in what is now France, broke off stalagmites and used them to build mysterious circular structures. Later on, bears moved in and ...

A 500-kilometre-wide object in a similar orbit to Pluto challenges our assumptions about small bodies in the outer solar ...

Minuscule silicon wafers propelled by lasers could be used to steer light sails, helping them travel beyond the solar system ...

Only 3 per cent of those with polycystic ovary syndrome reach perimenopause by the age of 46, which may allow them to ...

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If a key ocean current collapses it could plunge northern Europe into a big freeze. Now researchers are weighing up a drastic ...

A comprehensive study exploring coffee’s physiological effects finds that some of its benefits are down to polyphenols and ...