It's tricky to figure out what Earth might have looked like in the early years before life emerged. Geological detectives have now obtained more evidence that...
While some still quibble over wearing masks a year into the pandemic, scientists have gotten on with working out exactly what strategy is best - and...
An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of an extraordinary fossilized nest in China, preserving at least eight separate dinosaurs from...
The climate crisis is affecting our planet to such an extent, summers in the Northern Hemisphere could last half the year by 2100, scientists have warned.
A chunk of meteorite found in the desert sands of Algeria could be a piece of a baby planet that never made it.
From what little we know of them, they seem so different. Mysterious creatures that lived in the ocean half a billion years ago – headless, limbless...
More and more, it seems that the existence and persistence of life on Earth is the result of sheer luck. According to a new analysis of...
They say beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, but in actuality, it goes far deeper than that.
A regime change of almost unimaginable scale has taken place in the natural world, reflecting humanity's vast and growing dominance over one of our planet's most...
Nothing fills a parent with relief like the sound of their newborn's cry. That first gulp of air defines such a critical moment in our lives,...