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

Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

While imperceptible to humans, these tiny delays are significant for experiments that rely on pulsars as ultra-precise cosmic ...

A major claim in the older media cycle was that NASA removed the book and related materials. Whatever happened during the original wave of reporting, the current reality is clear: NASA now provides an ...

Medina al-Zahira is tied to one of the most powerful and controversial figures of late Umayyad al-Andalus: Almanzor (al-Manṣūr). While the caliphs reigned, Almanzor is remembered as the de facto ...

Modern humans are the latest in a long line of creatures belonging to the Homo genus, although until now we knew relatively ...

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a technosignature. Reading time 3 minutes From the moment astronomers discovered ...

More than 50 skeletons spanning 20 burials were recovered from beneath the Tower of London, with one mass grave dating back to the Black Death. Over 50 skeletons were found beneath the Tower of London ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...