The discovery of catalytic RNA transformed our understanding of life's beginnings. Clare Sansom explores how the RNA world ...

Earth as we know it is nearly 4.6 billion years old, and the air around us suited near perfectly for life, with the proper ...

In the last five years, 3 of the 4 oldest cave artworks ever found on Earth were identified on the same small island off ...

Let’s put ICE and, indeed, war itself –the smugly violent certainty of militarism – into the largest perspective possible. I ...

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

A fossilized foot found in the dusty sediments of northern Ethiopia has reopened one of paleoanthropology’s most ...

The Bhimbetka site, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, captures the continuous presence of human life from the Lower Palaeolithic Age, roughly 100,000 years ago, to the Medieval period.

The King's Trough Complex is a several-hundred-kilometer-long, canyon-like system of trenches on the North Atlantic seafloor.

Prolific author Bill Bryson thought he was finished. The universe had other plans.

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

Will two rare supernovas finally tell us how fast the universe is expanding? Perhaps, but we'll have to wait for it for them ...

He insisted that nature deserves protection because it exists, not because it’s useful to us. Each being is an end in ...