"Its deep, undisturbed waters have acted like a natural time capsule, trapping layers of sediment year after year, each ...

Geologists confirm that industrial waste turns into rock in just 35 years, challenging traditional ideas about geological ...

A new study reveals that microplastics are present in sediments throughout the Whittard Canyon – a submarine canyon off the ...

Green roofs can capture nearly all the microplastic particles that contaminate rainwater in modern cities, according to a new ...

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

Ancient DNA evidence shows that the advent of agriculture led to more infectious disease among humans, with pathogens from ...

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants managed to people the rest of the world ...

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Not only did nano fertilizers grow equally healthy crops as conventional fertilizers, researchers found they also released ...