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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Physical activity is not only important for fitness, but also for health. This is confirmed by a new study conducted under the direction of Prof. Dr. Maximilian Kleinert at the German Institute of ...