As global temperatures continue to soar, Nasa data reveals last month as the hottest in history, marking ten straight months of broken climate change records.
Camp Century, a base built under the Greenland ice sheets, could find its nuclear remains exposed to devastating effect as ice and snow melts away.
Sports fans have noticed a rise in the number of athletes with purple marks on their skin, resulting from a practice that is supposed to aid recovery and boost performance.
The apocryphal tale of a natural disaster creating the country’s First Dynasty is backed up by a recent archaeological excavation.
The mysterious extinction of an isolated population of mammoths on an Alaskan island reveals the impact of rising sea levels.
Early-stage research success hints at a visionary future in which an immersive glass-free 3D experience could be possible at the cinema.
Six women and four debut novels make the list on a year with a number of notable omissions and surprise inclusions.
Discovered in Manchester, the invisible 2D substance is currently being explored in an exhibition examining its history and revealing its potential.
The Tsimane’ – a population of people in a rural village in Bolivia – are overturning scientists' understanding of why humans prefer consonant sounds over dissonant ones.
Newborn ducklings can differentiate between objects that are the same and objects that are different, causing scientists to rethink the place of abstract thinking.
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