A pair of woolly mammoth vertebrae in Alaska have been dated to around 2,000 years old, making them by far the most recent ...

The only thing more awkward than forgetting your kid? Finding him Home Alone with two corpses.

“We don't really know at what point Celtic emerged. The earliest extant texts in a Celtic language date from the early sixth ...

The lesson appears to be clear: you should stop throwing your pasta water down the sink, stat. Instead, “think a step ahead,” ...

Some of the oldest English alphabets ever documented feature the ampersand symbol, typically at the end of the alphabet after ...

There’s some evidence that a new strain of the virus has been driving outbreaks in recent years. Called GII.17, it superseded ...

B uried in the leaf litter of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest lie members of what just might be the world's cutest genus. The ...

Black holes are notoriously difficult to spot unless they are active, and one type of activity is the destruction of a star, ...

“Our latest discovery helps solve a 20-year cosmic mystery,” co-lead author Daniel Whalen from the University of Portsmouth's ...

Until now, the oldest conclusive evidence of complex fire-making like this was a mere 50,000 years old, with disputed ...

Christmas Day in 1809 saw a surgical first thanks to Dr Ephraim McDowell, the American physician who performed the world’s ...

When something is this far outside the bounds of anything we’ve seen before, explanations are unlikely to come quickly, but a ...