Spear-throwing tools called atlatls allow humans to launch projectiles over great distances, but Neanderthals apparently ...

A vaccination campaign targeting ducks, the farm birds most at risk of getting and spreading bird flu, succeeded in greatly ...

SpaceX claims the fifth test flight of its Starship rocket will happen “within days”, but the Federal Aviation Administration ...

Autonomous taxis are already operating on US streets, while Elon Musk has spent years promising a self-driving car and ...

The UK government's decision to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius surprisingly threatens the extinction of millions of ...

Evolutionary molecular biologist Beth Shapiro on the hunt for ancient DNA and her groundbreaking de-extinction and ...

Rachel Kushner is the author of Creation Lake, which has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, as well as the bestselling ...

Millions of years ago, our ancestors lost a gene for producing vitamin C and got a taste for citrus. Since then, we've cultivated the tangy fruits into global staples like sweet oranges and sour lemon ...

Low levels of a particular compound in faeces could be a sign of endometriosis – and supplementation of that compound might even help control the condition. Affecting nearly 200 million people ...

A new technique uses glowing molecules, laser light and microscopes to measure distances as minuscule as 0.1 nanometres – the ...

Ancient volcanic rock from South Africa has been found to harbour primitive bacteria, which may shed light on some of the ...

Nearly 6000 species and subspecies of earthworms have been identified by scientists – but the true number could top 30,000 ...