During a dig in the Patagonia region, Fernando Novas at the Bernardino Rivadavia Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences in Buenos Aires and his colleagues unearthed the complete skull, spine and hips of ...

Malty, hoppy or fruit-forward? Just as beers come in different flavours, so do beer enthusiasts. That’s according to researchers who found that beer drinkers tasting a series of lagers fall into two ...

A bright-yellow worm that lives in deep-sea hydrothermal vents is the first known animal to create orpiment, a brilliant but toxic mineral used by artists from antiquity until the nineteenth century.

The period of panic and unrest called the Great Fear was triggered by deliberately spread rumours, according to methods ...

Single-celled species that often stick together in colonies have researchers rethinking the origin of animals.

Researchers have created glow-in-the-dark plants by injecting succulents with materials similar to those that make the ...

Genetic and anatomical data reveal how the human pelvis acquired its unique shape, enabling our ancestors to walk on two legs ...

Hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of displacement from expanding ‘gullies’ in cities across Africa. Gigantic ...

Research into the growing environmental problem of urban gullies highlights the challenging conditions under which many ...

Long-term study suggests that the more heatwaves people are exposed to, the more it accelerates body ageing. Long-term ...

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Birds in brightly lit cities sing for an average of 50 minutes longer than those in the darkest environments, starting their ...