News Articles about Everyday Life

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

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

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

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...

By learning from pterosaurs we may be able to make aircrafts more manouverable.

A Nature paper reveals an exciting fossil story that shows some very strange extinct marine invertebrates called...

People who take part in or attend 'cultural' activities tend to have better physical and mental health...

Gossip you hear about others affects whether you even see them, a new study has shown.

Imagine a group of British Army Air Corps pilots flying over the deserts of the Near East in the early years of the...

Earlier this month, a major conference was held at the Geological Society in London to discuss something that will not...

Naked Archaeologist Simcha Jakobovici claims to have found candidates for some cross nails, or nails from the cross.

There’s been a discovery in Central Texas that’s stirring-up the debate on the first peopling of the Americas....

Paddling across the pond, this next news story talks about the famous ‘Nichoria Bone’, a large fossil of an extinct...

Archaeologists working in Derbyshire have this month reported the discovery of a mass grave on an Iron Age hill fort....