Deep in Siberia, a giant crater known as the Batagaika megaslump is expanding by as much as 30 meters a year, exposing ground ...

Thomas Mulligan investigates the scientific implications and potential risks of researchers reanimating prehistoric pathogens ...

Homo erectus may have left a detectable genetic trace in living humans through ancient interbreeding with Denisovans.

Scientists have linked Denisovan DNA to the "Dragon Man" skull, giving ancient relatives a physical form. Fossils found ...

Stress and mental exhaustion aren't new – in medieval times, they were prevalent. And the wisdom of the Middle Ages about how ...

Findings from a mysterious remote chain of islands off the coast of California are rattling bones in the science community as bone-pickers find traces of a “vanished world.” The Golden State’s Channel ...

Employees of the Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS) have discovered in Primorye the ...

According to researchers at Imperial College London, humans shed around 200 million skin cells each hour—and they have to go ...

On the author’s memoir of his mother, whose story encompasses the twentieth century and the history of her merchant family ...

Russia unleashed waves of missiles and drones at Ukraine early Monday, killing at least 22 people in attacks that exposed widening gaps in the country’s air defenses more than four years into Moscow’s ...

The following article contains major spoilers for The Odyssey. The Odyssey is packed with gigantic moments — some of them involving actual giants. (Let's pour one out for the poor dudes who meet their ...

VLADIMIR Putin is attempting to launch another war – this time with death itself. The ageing tyrant, 73, is trying to achieve ...