An illustration of a Neanderthal and a sketch of ring finger locked in a bent position as seen in Dupuytren’s disease, colloquially known as the “Vik…
Using data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, astrophysicists have found preliminary evidence for gamm…
Researchers at Tam PÃ Ling cave in Laos have found a fragment of a human shinbone that is up to 86,000 years old. (Image credit: Fabrice Demeter) Hom…
The bright, red star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion has shown some unexpected behaviour. In late 2019 and 2020 it became fainter than we had e…
In the most massive test to date, physicists have probed a major paradox in quantum mechanics and found it still holds even for clouds of hundreds of…
The Medici family's history is rife with power struggles, intrigue and murder, but organs interred in the family tomb point to another killer — …
Work is now underway in the Tarim Basin There are a lot of ways that scientists can figure out what's going on beneath Earth's surface – like…
Four years ago, prior to the pandemic, the big story in world trade was the Trump tariffs against China. Flash forward to today, and while the tariff…
For quite some time, there has been a proposition that a density spike of dark matter could develop around a black hole, but despite this theoretical…
Artist’s impression of Iani (Jorge Gonzalez/North Carolina State University/North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences) A newly discovered dinosaur …
The extinct human relative Homo naledi, whose brain was one-third the size of ours, buried their dead and engraved cave walls around 300,000 years ag…
Two populations of filaments, perpendicular and parallel to the galactic plane, which runs horizontally. Image by Farhad Yusef-Zadeh In the early 198…
Bowel cancer, also known as colorectal cancer, refers to cancer that originates in the large bowel. It can be categorized as colon cancer or rectal c…
Stephen Hawking's most famous theory about black holes has just been given a sinister update — one that proclaims that everything in the univers…
Physicists have long puzzled over why there is more matter in the Universe than its flipped twin, antimatter. Without this imbalance, the two types …