“Nearly all civilizations have their own origin or creation myth. Now we can use archaeogenetics to tell a global story...

For the past 2 million years, the size of the human brain has tripled, growing much faster than other mammals. Examining the reasons...

New observations using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have been used to solve an important astrophysical puzzle concerning the oldest stars in our...

As the oldest, largest and deepest lake on planet Earth, ancient Lake Baikal is known as the “grand dame” of all lakes. UNESCO declared it a World...

The world’s largest hot desert (seeing as technically Antarctica is the largest desert, though cold), the Sahara measures in at over...