The human brain continuously processes the wide range of information it acquires from the outside world. Over time, this ...

Ancient fish had synovial joints, challenging the idea that flexible skeletons evolved on land. Fossils and modern fish show ...

To make glass from soft tissue the sequence of events must be exactly right. This is how experts think it went down ...

Two men have been convicted of a series of sexual offences against two teenage girls, who were described by the gang ...

Researchers have found dozens of human bones on the banks of the iconic river, many of them thousands of years old.

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine ...

Herb Baumeister, a thrift store owner, is believed to have killed at least 25 people from the 1980s to the 1990s and buried ...

Israeli geo-archeologist had studied ancient seismic activity of Santorini for decades, then happened to be on the island as ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

Excavations have found that the brain of what seems to be a human male contained dark glass formed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. The effect can't be explained by lava temperatures ...

Victorian hunters, explorers and collectors feature strongly in the story of the Great Auk. The writer Kaliane Bradley places the 19th century polar explorer Commander Graham Gore at the heart of her ...

Factory job cuts hit nearly five-year high amid rising taxes and tariff fears Manufacturing job cuts happened at the fastest ...