Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have ...

Zack Savitsky is a freelance science journalist based in Berlin who writes about the physics of the universe and our place ...

JWST has created a map of dark matter that is twice as good as anything we have had before, and it may help unravel some of ...

The way time ticks forward in our universe has long stumped physicists. Now, a new set of tools from entangled atoms to black ...

Solar geoengineering could halve the economic cost of climate change, but stopping it would cause temperatures to rebound ...

From a powerful horse to South Korea's sea women, these are some of the winners of the Walk of Water photography awards ...

Despite its small size, Mars seems to have a huge impact on the orbital cycles that govern Earth’s climate, especially those ...

A woman's fertility can be partly gauged by levels of a hormone that reflects how many eggs she has. Now, scientists have ...

New tests to gauge an individual's circadian rhythms could be put to good use helping night workers fend off the ill effects of their unsocial hours ...

Many species of fungus across the world produce psilocybin, a chemical with psychedelic effects in humans, but its ...

A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...

Two extremely damaging crop pests have interbred to create hybrids resistant to more than one pesticide that could cause ...