Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...

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Explore the fascinating tale of the Kola Superdeep Borehole, a monumental scientific endeavor by the Soviet Union that aimed ...

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India’s seed diversity faces rising corporate capture and GE risks; farmers fight for sovereignty and agroecology. Explore what’s at stake and why it matters.

For a newly discovered dinosaur that sported some flamboyant headgear, scientists chose the name Stellasaurus or “star lizard” in honor of the true Starman himself, David Bowie. According to the Daily ...

The timeline of terrestrial evolution holds surprises. While scientists thought complex life required oxygen, a recent ...

Slow orbital changes caused pulses in Earth's oxygen cycle 500 million years ago, which spurred explosions of animal life.

As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, ...

For roughly 2 billion years of Earth's early history, the atmosphere contained no oxygen, the essential ingredient required ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Fossil skulls reveal how extinct mammals smelled the world, with new research linking olfactory bulb size to gene counts.