For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early humans: Paranthropus robustus. It walked upright, and was built for heavy chewing with relatively massive jaws, and...
A recent study by Dr. Esther Jacobson-Tepfer, published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, explores the transformation of elk rock art in the Mongolian Altai. Her research sheds light on the possible factors that influenced these changes,...
An international team of researchers, co-led by ETH Zurich and Imperial College London, has derived the first estimate of global meteorite impacts on Mars...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake shook the northeastern U.S. on Friday morning.
The earthquake was felt from Boston down to Baltimore at 10:23 a.m. ET, according...
A magnitude 6 earthquake struck the southern region of Greece, sending tremors through the area and prompting fears of potential tsunamis.
The European Mediterranean...
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit northern Papua New Guinea on Sunday morning, the United States Geological Survey said.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said there...
An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 hit eastern Turkey on Thursday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.
The earthquake was at a depth of 10...
The first ever satellite instrument capable of continuously detecting lightning across Europe and Africa has now been switched on. New animations from the innovative...
