Until now, the oldest conclusive evidence of complex fire-making like this was a mere 50,000 years old, with disputed ...

“Our latest discovery helps solve a 20-year cosmic mystery,” co-lead author Daniel Whalen from the University of Portsmouth's ...

When something is this far outside the bounds of anything we’ve seen before, explanations are unlikely to come quickly, but a ...

B uried in the leaf litter of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest lie members of what just might be the world's cutest genus. The ...

Black holes are notoriously difficult to spot unless they are active, and one type of activity is the destruction of a star, ...

Indeed, recent studies have indicated that the humble honey bee possesses a remarkable talent for mathematics and can even ...

Christmas Day in 1809 saw a surgical first thanks to Dr Ephraim McDowell, the American physician who performed the world’s ...

From ghosts appearing in photographs to a lot of bent spoons, things got pretty weird when the “Alpha Kids” crashed a study.

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The markings, which appear on the outside of the fruit, are the result of a virus. They are safe to eat, even if they do look pretty weird.

One mission would involve a full 300 sols on the Red Planet, with the goal of finding extinct or current life on Mars. But ...

UK health authorities have identified a new strain of the mpox virus in an English individual who recently returned from ...