Ancient DNA from Southern Africa rewrites the story of human origins
A major new study has revealed that a group of people in southern Africa lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years—offering...
Scientists find over 16,000 dinosaur footprints along an ancient Bolivian Shoreline
A remarkable fossil site in Bolivia has revealed more than 16,000 dinosaur footprints, offering one of the most detailed pictures ever found of how...
Scientists discover a new giant duck-billed dinosaur hidden in museum collections for 100 years
A newly identified dinosaur species has been officially added to the family tree, thanks to fresh analysis of fossils first found more than a...
Did asteroids invent gum billions of years ago?
What is “gum”? Most people have probably never considered this question, and might answer something like a chewy material you can put in your...
Ancient undersea lava acts as a giant carbon sponge, scientists find
Scientists have discovered that piles of ancient lava rubble deep beneath the ocean floor can store massive amounts of carbon dioxide for millions of...
Chang’e-6 uncovers strange “sticky” soil on the moon’s far side
Scientists have finally taken a close look at the first-ever soil samples brought back from the far side of the moon, and the results...
Greenland without ice? Researchers uncover evidence of a warm Earth 400,000 years ago
A new documentary is shedding light on a remarkable period in Earth’s history—one when large parts of Greenland, now buried under thick ice, were...
How ancient people may have turned water into wine—using only raisins
It may sound like a miracle, but new research suggests that people in ancient times could have made wine simply by soaking sun-dried raisins...
Earthquakes spark hidden life boom beneath Yellowstone, Study Finds
Nearly a third of Earth’s living mass exists underground, in dark environments where sunlight never reaches.
Instead of relying on photosynthesis, these deep-living microbes survive...
Scientists capture ultra-rare, ultra-sharp images of powerful solar flares
Scientists have achieved something that almost never happens in solar research: they captured high-resolution images of an active region on the sun at the...