How would you go about answering the question “How many people have ever lived on this planet?” If you type that into Google or an artificial intelligence chatbot, you’ll get an answer pretty ...

A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

Clear fossil evidence can be found most of the five major groups – here we see a Dickinsonia fossil, providing evidence of ancient animal life. Professor Gergely J. Szöllősi, author on this study and ...

Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...

New research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution sheds light on the timelines and pathways of evolution of fungi, finding evidence of their influence on ancient terrestrial ecosystems. The study, ...

While on-site construction is already underway, the team rigorously validated key assumptions, optimised project parameters, and further refined cost estimates, significantly advancing and de-risking ...

Taking place 20 years after the events of the original Alien film, Romulus brings the horrors of the original to life. Body and alien horror take the forefront in a film with a shockingly terrifying ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of glass and bright white structures. Despite being just outside Tucson, Arizona, ...

Extreme weather and climate change caused “more financial damage in Europe between 2020 and 2023 than it did in the whole preceding decade” ...

Explore the future of our planet in "Earth in 1 Million Years." This video delves into the potential geological, climatic, and environmental changes that our world may undergo over a million-year ...