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A team led by Paul Renne at the Berkeley Geochronology Center in California have shed new light on the asteroid impact...

Cheese-making got started at least 7000 years ago, a new study from Poland has shown...

Bright light exposure at night harms your health and your memory, even if you think you are sleeping normally...

Delicate stone arrowheads dating from 71,000 years ago have been unearthed in South Africa, providing the earliest...

Eunuchs live up to 19 years longer than intact males...

Scientists at Tel Aviv University have discovered and analysed some remarkable stone age tools that they say are the...

The claim that people tend to look in one direction - up and to the left - when they are being honest, and a different...

Make no bones about it, dinosaurs were warm-blooded, new research has revealed.

One of archaeology's greatest questions, "did farming move across Europe with knowledge or people?" is...

The timings of supernova explosions close to Earth marry up with epochs in the planet's history when the diversity...

Otzi, the Tyrolean iceman frozen in a glacier for 5300 years until his 1991 discovery, was brown-eyed, prone to heart...

Throughout history, a "gentleman" was something the lower classes deferred to and aspired to be. But now new...

Bedding 77,000 years old has been uncovered at a cave site in South Africa....

The world's oldest tackle, together with evidence of deep-sea fishing 40,000 years ago, has been unearthed in East...

Dr Robert Massey brings us up to date with what's been happening at the Royal Astronomical Society...

Children are more likely to seek assistance in a task than chimpanzees, suggesting that a motivation to work together...

Getting hitched and having children causes mens' testosterone levels to drop, painting a very different...

Humans have evolved to develop an over-inflated sense of our own abilities, scientists have discovered. This bullish...

The UK is a world-leader in applying geological knowledge to investigate crime. Using the strong UK base as a starting...

Men are generally better at spatial awareness than women. But is this gender difference a result of nature or nurture...

Whilst haute cuisine would appear to be a modern human trait, new research suggests that the art of cooking could well...

Research suggests that early hominids of the species <i>Homo erectus</i>, which lived between 1.8 and 1.5...

Humans descend from a line of sun-lovers, researchers have shown. A new technique can reveal the historical density of...