Ochre body paint may have been a form of prehistoric sunscreen that helped early humans survive a sudden increase in ultraviolet (UV) radiation around 41,000 years ago.

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A lonely black hole roaming the cosmos in solitude has been confirmed for the first time. A closer look has revealed the dark object's identity, after much hubbub.

Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in published papers: "vegetative electron microscopy".

We all need a way to get along in this wild, wicked world, and a rare insect found only on a mountainside on O'ahu has found ...

While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, ...

There are a lot of things in Earth's night sky, and every now and again, they line up in such a way to give us all a little ...

This week brings the Hubble Space Telescope's 35th birthday – but instead of getting presents, the Hubble team is giving out ...

An unprecedented coral bleaching episode has spread to 84 percent of the world's reefs in an unfolding human-caused crisis ...

When it comes to eating meat, it sometimes seems impossible to strike a balance between doing the right thing for your body, ...

Gold dust in eyes might seem like an unusual therapy – but a new mouse study in the US shows the approach could potentially ...

For most humans who have breathed Earth's air over the course of history, our deaths have disappeared from record, as ...