Researchers from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, investigated the links between long-term leisure-time physical ...

Converting one type of cell to another — for example, a skin cell to a neuron — can be done through a process that requires ...

More than five years after a landmark study in the journal Science showed that North American bird populations declined by ...

Researchers have advanced a decades-old challenge in the field of organic semiconductors, opening new possibilities for the ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels over and draws its last breath. The carcass is soon set ...

Giant space rocks are definitely going to hit the Earth again. We actually do know how to deflect them, but only if we find them and correctly assess their risk. But the solar sys ...

In 2021, researchers reported a shocking disappearance in the Bering Sea. Not of people, but of Alaskan snow crabs. And it's taken scientists years to understand how tens of billions of ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...

You've heard of Pompeii and the volcano that wiped it out, but how much do you REALLY know about this incredibly famous place ...

A human skull fragment discovered at the Sima del Elefante site at Atapuerca has become the oldest face in Western Europe.