A new species of coelacanth has been identified from a 150-year-old fossil housed at London’s Natural History Museum. Former University of Portsmouth palaeontology student Jack L. Norton located the ...

A new study suggests that for the last 74,000 years, malaria shaped where early humans could live in Africa—fragmenting populations and influencing patterns of exchange long before recorded history.

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Compiled by the Wellcome Sanger Institute and published in Frontier Economics, it is thought that sequencing all species from ...

It’s not little green men with flying saucers and laser guns that scientists are worried about, instead our foes will be much ...

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Scientists have discovered a lot about space, how it works and the things in it, but there are still loads of mysteries left to solve. Space is the vast expanse of the universe where energy and matter ...