Extinct animals hold the answers to life and death, says University of Cambridge's PhD in Palaeontology student Grace Kinney Broderick.

If you have spent time with an infant, you might recognize the scene: A child is wailing, inconsolable, and you, the parent, have to go to the bathroom. Or eat. Or attend to a pot that’s boiling over.

Scientists solve the mystery of the Justinian Plague. They identify Yersinia pestis as the cause. The plague devastated the ...

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A new study takes another look at some of the oldest known stone tools and suggests their makers transported materials for up to eight miles ...

For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian - the ...