Around 70,000 years ago, our species Homo sapiens walked out of Africa and began to find new homes around the world. What happened next? Well, hidden clues can be found in our genes, according to a new study
Nearly 10,000 years ago, Earth came out of its most recent ice age. Vast, icy swaths of land around the poles thawed, melting the glaciers that had covered them for nearly 100,000 years
An international study carried out by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) has examined the distribution of biomass across all life in the oceans, from bacteria to whales. Their quantifi
The levels of the three most important heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached new record highs again last year, US scientists have confirmed, underlining the escalating challenge posed by the climate crisis
Groundwater provides drinking water for people and livestock, and it helps with crop irrigation when rain is scarce. However, the new research shows that persistent groundwater extraction over more than a decade shifted the axis on which our planet rotate
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have designed a liquid that behaves as both a solid and a fluid owing to the presence of tiny gas-filled capsules. An unusual relationship between pressure and
Volvo Car AB produced its last automobile with a diesel engine, ending an era for the manufacturer that plans to only make electric vehicles by 2030
Stadler’s hydrogen-powered FLIRT H2 train has set a new Guinness World Record for travelling the longest distance as a pilot hydrogen fuel cell electric multiple unit passenger train without refuelling or recharging