For tens of thousands of years, ancient microbes have lain dormant in the Alaskan permafrost, stuck in a state of suspended animation much like characters in Sleeping Beauty.
Now, a team of geologists writing in JCR Biogeosciences has awoken…
In modern-day Italy, the closest you will get to an elephant is in a zoo. But 400,000 years ago, a large species of straight-tusked elephants roamed Europe — and an unlucky few ended up on the dinner plates of early humans.
Archeologists writing…
There are around 2 million species of plants and animals known to science, with ever more continuing to be discovered every year.
Researchers at Australia’s national science research agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research…
Our noses get colder when we’re stressed – and the changes are so significant they can be…
Scientists have made new discoveries about the lives of the world’s first farming…
To ask about the health benefits of moving nearer a golf course has the whiff of someone desperately trying to use scientific research to convince their partner that living next to Gleneagles is a good idea.
Fair play. I, for one, greatly admire…
You might think honeybees are thriving – after all, the honey industry is growing and its bees are well looked after by beekeepers. But not all honeybees live in hives. Across Europe, colonies still live in the wild, nesting in tree…
