A team of scientists led by the British Museum have unearthed the earliest known evidence of fire making, dating back over 400,000 years, in a field in Suffolk.

While Europeans eventually discovered the impressive moai statues for which the Rapa Nui are best known, they also stumbled ...

US-based Dare Bioscience developed a topical cream with sildenafil that boosts female arousal and works in ten minutes.

A new report published Tuesday, titled “A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars,” represents the answer from ...

This list exemplifies the hard work in science over this past year, not simply in the lab but where it matters.

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

A new archaeological find pushes back the timeline on when humans mastered the ability to make fires, a transformative ...

Did you know that the scientist who invented germ theory was disbelieved for over a decade? There are many brilliant ...

These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

Detectives often find important clues by digging through rubbish. That approach paid off tremendously for systems biologist Yifat Merbl. When she and her team investigated cellular recycling centres ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of ...

Like Ghaskadbi, many researchers can trace their initial childhood interest in science to a gift. Dozens of readers of the Nature Briefing responded to our call asking about their favourite presents — ...