Learning to control fire made us human but adapting to its use brought us cancer, argues Arghya Manna
If you are planning a trip to the South Pole, you must tuck this map into your parka. The most accurate map - called the Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica - of the southernmost continent was recently released by a group of American researchers.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft still has 100 million miles to go, but it has taken its first snapshot of the space rock (MU 69) that will be its date for New Year's Day 2019.
Bodies just kept shrinking on this Indonesian island and scientists aren’t sure why, says Carl Zimmer
The Arctic ice cap isn't threatened just by melting ice around its edges, warmer water that originated hundreds of kilometres away has also penetrated deep into the Arctic Ocean. This "archived" heat, currently trapped below the surface, can melt all the sea ice if it reaches the surface, researchers report in the journal, Science Advances. The upper ocean in the Canadian Basin, for example, has seen a two-fold increase in heat content over the past 30 years, with its source hundreds of miles south. Arctic winds are driving the warmer water north, but keeping it below the surface.
Weather forecasting is still an imperfect science. But the way forward is to build more partnerships so that global weather data can be interpreted by local experts, says Aswin Sekhar
If you hate to clean your room and love to laze around, there's nothing to worry. It turns out that you are simply trying to survive. A study at the University of Kansas suggests that species that spend more energy on a daily basis are at greater risk of becoming extinct than those that are more sedentary.
