This week in science: fossilized 'mammoth' bones found to be from a completely different animal; NASA returns Space Station ...

Chronic time pressure strains mental health, suggesting relief may come from loosening time’s control rather than managing it ...

The Core And Filament Formation/Evolution In Natal Environments (CAFFEINE) survey is an "astronomer's best friend," according to the European Southern Observatory.

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

Each station is to be capable of communication at a speed of 100 five-letter words per minute each way, during a daily ...

Far from Earth's gravitational pull, a simple viral infection took on a new evolutionary direction. A study conducted aboard the ISS found that when bacteria and ...

A palm-sized fragment of elephant bone, shaped and used as a precision tool almost half a million years ago, has been identified as the oldest known elephant-bone implement in Europe. Although the ...

A myriad of colours that survived millions of years of evolution have disappeared in a short period of time. The culprit? A bright green, aggressive, and sexually dominant wall lizard that has wiped ...

In a world first, a research team led by the University of Oxford’s Department of Engineering Science has shown it is ...

D inosaurs once roamed in Utah ’s Dinosaur National Monument Park. The evidence is embedded in the rocks, but some enormous – ...

"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...