Traces of unknown ancestor emerged when researchers analysed genomes from west African populations Scientists have found evidence for a mysterious “ghost population” of ancient humans that lived in Africa about half a million years ago and whose genes live on in people today. Traces of the unknown ancestor emerged ... Read More »
We have now entered the world’s sixth mass extinction event — the biggest, most rapid global biodiversity crisis since a meteor ended the age of the dinosaurs’ A massive decline of bumblebees — the world’s most important pollinators — is now underway due to “climate chaos” and other human impacts on ... Read More »
Bizarre organism found in amoebae in Brazil is named after mythical sea siren Viruses are some of the world’s smallest life-forms – and the jury is still out as to whether they actually are life-forms at all, as they cannot live or reproduce outside a host organism. A new form ... Read More »
One of the defining characteristics of the mysterious deep-space signals we call fast radio bursts is that they are unpredictable. They belch out across the cosmos without rhyme or reason, with no discernible pattern, making them incredibly hard to study. Now, for the first time, astronomers have found a fast ... Read More »
|Scientists have discovered an asteroid with such a strange surface that they have named it the “golf ball”. The rock is the most heavily cratered object ever to be seen in the asteroid belt and is “like discovering a new world”, according to the researchers who found it. And in ... Read More »
Exclusive: Public health epidemiologist says other countries should consider adopting China-style containment measures The coronavirus epidemic could spread to about two-thirds of the world’s population if it cannot be controlled, according to Hong Kong’s leading public health epidemiologist. His warning came after the head of the World Health Organization ... Read More »
Damage to environment could wipe £368bn a year from growth by 2050 and UK will be hard hit, WWF warns Loss of nature will wipe £368bn a year off global economic growth by 2050 and the UK will be the third-worst hit, with a £16bn annual loss, according to ... Read More »
A new spacecraft that will give us an unprecedented view of the Sun has blasted off into space. Europe and Nasa’s Solar Orbiter was rocketed up to begin its journey to our star on Sunday night, with the aim of getting pictures of the kind never seen before. “We’re on ... Read More »
Agenda-setting newspapers and TV stations facing scramble to survive amid state dysfunction For nearly 80 years since its postwar independence, Lebanon has been a haven for regional media, giving a platform to journalism and entertainment that few other countries in the Middle East would dare to match. Its newspapers ... Read More »
The number of chinstrap penguins in some colonies in Western Antarctica has fallen by as much as 77% since they were last surveyed in the 1970s, say scientists studying the impact of climate change on the remote region. The chinstrap penguin, named after the narrow black band under its head, ... Read More »
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