Dian Fossey was a zoologist who spent decades studying the elusive mountain gorillas of Congo and Rwanda before she was ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and ...

Wegener at the University of Graz in Germany says that millions of years ago the two Americas, as well as Europe, Asia, ...

Archaeologists recently discovered the remnants of an ancient Egyptian “pleasure boat” near the ruins of Cleopatra VII’s lost ...

With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...

In Old Norse mythology, Baldr, the son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg, was slain with a mistletoe spear. Some ...

Union minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday said the Shanti Bill, which proposes opening the nuclear energy sector to private ...

Although science often advances through tried-and-tested methods, sometimes scientists have to find creative ways to test ...

Mind-blowing science books offer a staggering look at the secret logic of fungi, the evolution of the human mind, and the ...

A selection of science-based books from the year that together shine new light on who we are and why we think and act as we ...

A new documentary series from Uzbekistan explores how Central Asian scholars shaped global science, challenging Eurocentric ...

From fruit flies that bite to a tiny mouse opossum and a feathered dinosaur preserved with the remains of its last meal, more ...