A new investigation of ancient horned animal skulls found in Spain's Des-Cubierta Cave deepens the mystery of when and why Neanderthals put them there.

Immediately after the Big Bang boomed, the Universe was a trillion-degree 'soup' of unimaginably dense plasma.

Haolong is known only from a single specimen – an almost complete skeleton stretching 2.45 meters (8 feet) long, with stunningly preserved skin. Intriguingly, the bones suggest it was still a juvenile ...

Yet there is clear evidence that adults benefit from playfulness just as children do. Research shows that adults who engage in playful activities tend to cope better with stress, experience more ...

New techniques to detect Y chromosome genes show frequent loss of the Y in tissues of older men. The increase with age is clear: 40% of 60-year-old men show loss of Y, but 57% of 90-year-olds.

Deep inside the Greenland ice sheet, radar images have revealed strange, plume-like structures distorting the layering ...

Researchers have identified a period of sluggish magnetic field flipping for planet Earth, some 40 million years ago – ...

Venting, however, often goes beyond reflection into rumination. The study suggests that many people also try to exorcise ...

A study on worms led by researchers from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in the US has uncovered a previously ...

A comet whizzing through the Solar System has astonished scientists by doing something they had never seen before.

This week in science: the generational effects of nuclear radiation discovered in the children of Chernobyl cleanup workers; simple habits that could reduce your risk of dementia; a new light therapy ...

In places like Chernobyl and Fukushima, where nuclear disasters have flooded the environment with dangerous radiation, it makes sense that life might evolve ways to survive it.