April 25, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

A face that belonged to an "alien skull" has been revealed for the first time 1,500 years later after scientists were able to reconstruct it. Found in the 1970s in the village of Dully ...

In a release today (24), the police media division announced that groups of helmeted individuals had been responsible for many of the shootings and killings which had been increasingly carried out ...

NASA scientists have been left baffled after the Perseverance rover captured a bizarre image on Mars that looks eerily like a skull perched on a hilltop. Dubbed "Skull Hill" by the team ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has spotted a mysterious rock on the Red Planet, which the space agency has named 'Skull Hill'. The rock was discovered in the Port Anson region, which lies on the rim ...

Illustration by ZME Science/AI-generated. At one of the world’s most elite universities, professors once toasted to empire using a human skull. For decades, Oxford academics at Worcester College ...

Oxford University academics used a chalice made from a human skull – potentially belonging to an enslaved Caribbean woman – at formal dinners until as recently as 2015, a new book has alleged.

The book reveals that a ceremonial drinking vessel, made from a human skull, was used at one of Oxford University's colleges until 2015. This vessel, originally crafted for drinking purposes, was ...

But now even Nasa is confused about a weird ‘skull’-like rock lolling on the surface of the Red Planet. Actually, it happens to be near where the ‘face’ was spotted earlier, which was also ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Oxford University academics drank out of a chalice made from a human skull until as recently as 2015. A new book written Professor Dan Hicks ...

Oxford dons drank wine from a chalice made from a human skull until as recently as 2015, it has emerged. Academics at Worcester College used to drink from the chalice, which was fashioned from a ...

One rock, which the team have named rather dramatically "Skull Hill", stood out more than the others. "This float rock uniquely contrasts the surrounding light-toned outcrop with its dark tone and ...