Revealed: face of 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal from cave where species buried their dead

A new documentary has recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal whose flattened skull was discovered and rebuilt from hundreds of bone fragments by a team of archaeologists and...

Bigger brains allow cliff-nesting seagull species to survive and thrive in urban environments

Ever wondered why there are so many seagulls seemingly living in the City? Seagull species that have bigger brains are more likely to nest on...

Researchers find oldest undisputed evidence of Earth’s magnetic field

A new study has recovered a 3.7-billion-year-old record of Earth’s magnetic field, and found that it appears remarkably similar to the field surrounding Earth...

Game Changers: Exploring How Advanced Payment Methods are Transforming the Gaming Industry

Advanced payment methods like mobile wallets and cryptocurrencies are transforming online gaming with their speed, security and low fees. Indeed, credit card transactions are...

Research lights up process for turning CO2 into sustainable fuel

Researchers have successfully transformed CO2 into methanol by shining sunlight on single atoms of copper deposited on a light-activated material, a discovery that paves...

Protect habitat to prevent pandemics

An international research team has proposed using ecological perspectives to prevent the occurrence of disease outbreaks. Pandemics begin when disease-harboring animals, such as bats, come...

Humans pass more viruses to other animals than we catch from them

Humans pass on more viruses to domestic and wild animals than we catch from them, according to a major new analysis For the new paper...

Scientists discover huge sea lizard that lived 66m years ago

Paleontologists have discovered a strange new species of marine lizard with dagger-like teeth that lived near the end of the age of dinosaurs. Their findings,...

The Arctic could become ‘ice-free’ within a decade

The Arctic could see summer days with practically no sea ice as early as the next couple of years, according to a new study...

Ice melt barriers in the Antarctic are disappearing by the double

Undersea anchors of ice that help prevent Antarctica’s land ice from slipping into the ocean are shrinking at more than twice the rate compared...