At one point after the last ice age, parts of the North Sea were dry land, and you could walk from mainland Europe into what is now Britain. A new study suggests that route was not a barren plain, but ...
Rice husk and oil palm waste could become a steadier fuel for clean electricity, after researchers in Colombia found they clog biomass reactors far less than coffee husk. If you have ever scrubbed a ...
Gravitational waves are famous for shaking the universe, yet barely nudging anything around us. We have detected them with some of the most sensitive machines ever built, but a new idea asks a ...
Galicia’s inlets are famous for mussels, octopus, and the bustle at the dock. So when a fisherman hauls up a fish more typical of warmer seas, it is not just a weird one-off story for the pier. A ...
What do you expect to find under a city park during a construction dig? In Hull, England, crews working in Queen’s Gardens just uncovered a cast-iron cannon that weighs more than 2,200 pounds and may ...
China is pushing ahead with the Pinglu Canal, a massive 83-mile (134-kilometer) waterway designed to let ships move from inland rivers to international sea routes. The project is meant to speed up ...
Most people grew up with a simple world map in school where Africa is one solid block of land. Now scientists say that picture is slowly going out of date. According to work highlighted by National ...
As global amphibian populations slide toward crisis, with roughly four in ten species now threatened with extinction, every patch of safe water starts to matter. On a small property near a trout ...
Have you ever thought about what a Stone Age status symbol looked like? On the forested western shore of Lake Onega, one of Europe’s largest freshwater lakes, archaeologists have uncovered a ...
Will humans still be around a thousand years from now? The late physicist Stephen Hawking had his doubts. “I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into ...
El café y el cacao venezolano tendrán que enseñar su mapa antes de llegar a Europa. La Unión Europea ha explicado a ...