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

The Drake equation provides a way to guess how many aliens we might be able to communicate with, but it’s also a prime ...

El Niño has already raised sea levels in part of the eastern Pacific by 40 centimetres and as it continues to strengthen ...

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

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

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

Nausea and vomiting are common after surgery, which may be partly related to the noises patients are exposed to, even under ...

A ship that probably sank in the Early Bronze Age was carrying jars of olive oil and may have been on its way to the ancient ...

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

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

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

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