If you ever travel back in time to hang out with Homo sapiens around 41,000 years ago, pack some sunscreen – or better yet, a ...

Thanks to over 700 Ancient Chinese poems, experts can now accurately map the decline of the porpoise ... from watching PBS shows as a kid with her mom and spending too much time binging Doctor Who.

A long period of drought in North America has been recognized by scientists for decades. A new study links the severe climate to a change in Earth's orbit.

In a recent study, researchers from Curtin University and the Geological Survey of Western Australia unearthed compelling ...

Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time ... as old as life on Earth. A new study finds that the ability to control genes from far away, over many tens of ...

A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle and remnants of an ancient ... same time, some of the material — components such as potassium, rare earth ...

The Mississippian Period is often recognized as a time of impressive achievements in the prehistoric Southeast ... In a sample of over 90 skulls from the settlement, over one-quarter of them ...

Asteroids are ancient space rocks left over from the formation of the Solar System. Of the 1.2 million known asteroids in our Solar System, over 36 000 are near-Earth ... (9.30pm UK time) on ...

Only six years old at the time, I was at ... to every corner of the Earth. Dinosaurs, the greatest movers and shakers the world has ever known, bulldozed through ancient forests, unwittingly ...

What comes to mind when you think of the prehistoric ... over eight metres long and weighing as much as five elephants, was one of the largest land mammals ever to roam the Earth.

You spent over two decades covering Iraq ... because of the heat and the drought, to hold the earth. And this was a little community that had had at one time 5,000 people, but there were only ...