Ancient stone tools found on Sulawesi, an island in Indonesia, raises huge questions about early hominins ability to sail ...

New findings have revealed that a supernova struck Earth 10 million years ago, and the evidence lies at the bottom of the sea ...

A new study reveals an intriguing possibility: asupernova explosion might have sent a surge of cosmic rays toward Earth around 10 million years ago, with consequences etched in ocean rocks. The ...

An exploding star may have sent cosmic shrapnel flying to hit Earth 10 million years ago, and astronomers have now narrowed down the most likely culprits behind this interstellar incident. Earlier ...

Can we turn to the past to learn more about how interactions between plants and pollinators changed during climate change? This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication ...

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The “Boring Billion” is an informal description of a billion-year-period of Earth history (1.8 billion to 800 million years ago) where tectonics, climate, and biological evolution remained ...

The ice sample, retrieved in Antarctica, is the oldest on record—but this discovery may just be tip of the iceberg. Reading time 3 minutes Science likes to travel far in search of new phenomena, but ...

Kissing may feel like a very human habit, but new research suggests it has much deeper roots. A team of scientists says the behavior likely began more than 20 million years ago, long before modern ...

Vera Korasidis received funding from the University of Melbourne Elizabeth and Vernon Puzey Fellowship Award. Scott Wing's fieldwork was supported by the Roland W. Brown fund of the Department of ...