In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

City-sized butterfly crater discovered in Mars’ Idaeus Fossae region Wings suggest buried ice melted by asteroid impact ...

In this chapter from 'Speaking of History', Romila Thapar and Namit Arora discuss the cultural inferiority complex among ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

A plant that looks like a fungus, lives like a parasite, and clones itself in the dark—Balanophora may be one of evolution’s ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

The colour change reveals ancient carbon chemistry, offering rare insights into material formed beyond our solar system.

What did a vulture-bone flute sound like inside a cave? How about singing inside a tomb? Researchers are bringing ancient ...

A new study published in Planet reveals a Micro-XRD method to quantitatively measure the ancient collision histories of meteorites. Researchers from ...

The Hjortspring boat carried warriors on an attempted attack of a Danish island over 2,000 years ago. Archaeologists have new ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...