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A previously unknown painting by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, an Italian painter and architect better known as Raphael, has been identified by Granada University...

In two new studies, genetic researchers have shown that about 20 percent of the Neanderthal genome survives in modern humans of non-African ancestry and...

Scientists have developed a unique method to authenticate the purity and origin of cacao beans, the source of chocolate’s main ingredient, cocoa. A...

UK scientists have recently discovered a huge subglacial trough – deeper than the Grand Canyon – in Antarctica. This map of Antarctica shows the...

A large multinational team of researchers has documented very high levels of molecular chlorine – as high as 400 parts per trillion – in the...

Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that lived in East Africa between 2.3 and 1.2 million years ago, mainly ate tiger-nuts – edible bulbous tubers...

In a large-scale lab and field study, a multinational team of researchers has revealed the origins of huge underwater waves. This satellite image shows...

A new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, confirms close relationship of Ardipithecus ramidus – a species of...

Earthquake lights – a rare luminous phenomenon that appears in the sky during or before seismic activity or volcanic eruptions – are more likely...

A team of researchers led by Prof Artem Oganov of Stony Brook University has shown that, under certain conditions, ordinary rock salt can take on some...

A comparison of the high-quality genome sequence of a 50,000-year-old Neanderthal woman with those of modern humans and Denisovans reveals a long history...

A tiny bone of an early human species, possibly Homo erectus, found in Kenya is the earliest evidence of a modern human-like hand, according to a team...

Perfluorotributylamine – a chemical used in the electrical industry – has the potential to contribute significantly to global warming, according...

A team of scientists reporting in the Journal of Proteome Research has cracked the secret of the black Périgord truffle’s unique, pungent aroma. The...

A 1.34-million-year-old partial skeleton of the Plio-Pleistocene hominin Paranthropus boisei – including arm, hand, leg and foot fragments – found...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have sequenced the mitochondrial genome of a 400,000-year-old...

According to an international group of anthropologists and archaeologists led by Dr Brigitte Holt from the University of Massachusetts, Neanderthals (Homo...

Australian scientists have revealed the bacterial killing potential of black silicon, a type of silicon that has been etched to create long narrow nanoprotrusions...

A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Scott Polar Research Institute has discovered two lakes about 800 m below the ice sheet...