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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....

It looks like diggers have found what could be one of the largest archaeological sites in England. And it’s been hidden...

Parents who "um" and "er" in front of their children are in fact likely to be boosting their...

Scientists at the University of Auckland have added another layer of complexity to the 'Out of Africa'...

Scientists have found a new way to gain a fresh insight into the disease by propagating patient's own nerve cells...

A team working in the USA and Holland have this week come one step closer to working out how a rider-less bicycle...

Researchers have found evidence to suggest that life evolved on land much earlier than previously thought...

Killer dinosaurs may have hunted mainly under cover of darkness.

The genetic basis of the switch from white to black in the peppered moth, a rare example of rapid evolutionary change,...

Mangrove forests lock up even more carbon than previously thought

Samples from comet Wild 2 show that they have been in contact with liquid water in the past

A new paper from researchers in the US, published in the journal Nature this week, provides an interesting angle – they...

Manners maketh man, and a tidy street stops stereotyping - In a surprise finding from the Netherlands, researchers have...

Brain shape shows who you'll vote for - People with opposing political views often don't see eye-to-eye, but...

Visionary scientists grow retina in a dish - In a landmark breakthrough in developmental biology, scientists in Japan...

Flaps on wind turbines may make wind power more economic

Brain scans could reveal political tendencies, scientists have shown.

Life's earliest molecules are being recreated using the power of evolution. In the same way that dog-breeders...

A paper published in Nature by Bradley Cardinale from the University of Michigan suggests that biodiversity in aquatic...

A tissue dye, called ThT and used commonly in pathology labs to stain proteins, appears also to have significant life-...

A strange anomaly in the movement of the Pioneer probes may have been explained

Fridges that are powered by heat are being improved