Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in ...

Archaeological site in Yunnan province yields nearly 1,000 wooden artefacts, including 35 tools, mostly used for digging, ...

During the last Ice Age,roughly between 26,000 and 19,000 years ago, the Earth was dramatically different from today. Vast ...

Archaeological excavations have revealed an extensive settlement dating from the Early-Middle Iron Age through to the first ...

Now, researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet say they’ve found the clearest answer yet. They report the discovery of ...

The virologist, awarded for his part in the discovery of the hepatitis C virus, has helped save the lives of millions of ...

An Iron Age Roman settlement has been discovered near a Cotswolds village after two rare swords were found. The excavation near Willersey over the Oxfordshire border in Gloucestershire has revealed ...

Two rare Roman cavalry swords discovered in a Gloucestershire field have sparked the excavation of a previously unknown Iron ...

A new study sequencing the first complete ancient Egyptian genome reveals the 4,500-year-old man had significant ancestry ...

A team of scientists has developed a new model for ‘very massive stars’ and their impact on the formation of black holes.

An extensive settlement established over 2,000 years ago, including possible evidence of a Roman villa, has been discovered ...

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