Category: Science

Endangered maleo bird of Indonesia bouncing back from t...

Maleos, colourful Indonesian birds that look a bit like quirky chickens, are endangered. But an initiative to protect the species ...

Two groups of whales evolved massive heads for differen...

Bowhead and right whales are among the biggest animals alive today, but a new look at how they evolved suggests that the two group...

How a Norwegian island is already living our climate ch...

As the world awaits the next key IPCC climate report, the rapidly warming Arctic island of Svalbard provides a glimpse into the fu...

UK summers are likely to regularly feature intense 40°C...

UK summers are likely to regularly see temperatures above 40°C even if humanity manages to limit global warming to 1.5°C, meteorol...

AI carpenter can design recreations of furniture from a...

An algorithm can turn photos of wooden objects into a 3D model that is detailed enough for a skilled carpenter to replicate

First known wild chimpanzee with albinism was killed by...

A baby chimpanzee was born with white fur and no pigmentation, the first time such an animal has been found in the wild. But the c...

Waves of animals died at an ancient Spanish lake and no...

Fossil forensics and artificial intelligence have shed light on how multiple groups of large mammals died by a lake in what is now...

Parents' second-hand marijuana smoke may cause colds in...

Children whose parents smoke or vape cannabis appear to get slightly more respiratory infections, such as colds and flu, than thos...

'Dragon man' fossil may replace Neanderthals as our clo...

A near-perfectly preserved ancient human fossil known as the Harbin cranium sits in the Geoscience Museum in Hebei GEO University....

A new type of Homo unknown to science

The bones of an early human, unknown to science, who lived in the Levant at least until 130,000 years ago, were discovered in exca...

Exoplanets in 2,034 star-systems get cosmic front-row s...

Scientists have identified 2,034 nearby star-systems -- within the small cosmic distance of 326 light-years -- that could find Ear...

Stress can turn hair gray -- and it's reversible, resea...

A new study offers quantitative evidence linking psychological stress to graying hair in people.

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