It’s not little green men with flying saucers and laser guns that scientists are worried about, instead our foes will be much ...

Compiled by the Wellcome Sanger Institute and published in Frontier Economics, it is thought that sequencing all species from ...

As the cave was over 100 kilometres from the coast when the pendant was made 15,000 years ago, it suggests that ancient ...

The mystery of a controversial fossil, once believed to be the oldest known octopus, has finally been resolved. First ...

How and why the Cambrian explosion occurred has been the subject of debate ever since fossils of this remarkable event were ...

Open daily except 24-26 December. Free, permanent gallery. Floor 2 of our Red Zone. Download the Museum map. Epic forces are at work every day, changing the face of our planet. Through dramatic film ...

Prepare your moves to get the earth quaking, get ready to heat up the dancefloor and make meteoric waves into an unforgettable 2026. Stellar entertainment and activities will be back by popular demand ...

One specimen that Diego always enjoys checking in on is the coelacanth. This legendary fish was once believed to have gone extinct in the era of the dinosaurs, but, astonishingly, living populations ...

Natural selection is a mechanism of evolution. Organisms that are more adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and pass on the genes that aided their success. This process causes ...

Scientists have discovered a lot about space, how it works and the things in it, but there are still loads of mysteries left to solve. Space is the vast expanse of the universe where energy and matter ...

Ancient DNA analysis of 15,800-year-old fossils has revealed the oldest genetic evidence of domestic dogs. The bones unearthed at several sites across Europe and Türkiye show that dogs were widely ...

A photo of an Iberian lynx playfully throwing its prey in the air has been crowned the winner of the Nuveen People’s Choice Award 2026. Titled Flying Rodent, the image by Josef Stefan soared to first ...