Unlike Dolní Věstonice 13, Ötzi can’t be said to display a Neanderthal-like thorax, although his barrel-chested body plan does suggest that he was specifically adapted to living in cold environments.

As Professor of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Paul Griffin explains in a recent piece for The Conversation, Stratus is ...

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Known to science as Dermatobia hominis, the human botfly can be found across Central and South America. A reasonably common ...

By the 1920s, Brazil’s rubber trees had caught the eye of car manufacturer Henry Ford who had a bright idea: why pay the exorbitant costs of Asia’s growing rubber markets when he could simply buy a ...

According to NASA, the Perseids is considered the best meteor shower of the year, largely due to the long streaks of color they leave as they head through our atmosphere, as well as their sheer ...

That study found that when asked to choose random numbers between one and five, the LLMS would choose three or four. For between one and 10, most would choose five and seven, and between one and 100, ...

There are more ways than we knew for the stratospheric polar vortex to get disrupted, shooting cold air southwards across ...

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P rehistoric footprints found at the southwestern tip of mainland Europe show how Neanderthal families worked together to ambush prey on the beach. Dated to around 80,000 years ago, the trackways were ...

Now, why this happens is a question we’re not quite sure about – but there may be a clue in the fact that we’re not alone.

So, why exactly was it so unpredictable in the air? Fortunately, US space agency NASA stepped in to investigate. NASA scientists at the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center ...