Fossils of five early humans have been found in North Africa that show Homo sapiens emerged…
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Wingsuit pilot Fraser Corsan ‘breaks speed record’
A British man is thought to have broken the World Record for greatest peak speed flown…
Asian nations make plastic oceans promise
China, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines say they will act to stop plastic polluting the oceans.
‘First of our kind’ found in Morocco
Fossils of modern humans uncovered in north Africa are at least 300,000 years old.
Paris pollution victim sues France for bad air
Parisian Clotilde Nonnez has lived in the capital for 30 years and has seen her health…
Antarctic Halley base waits on ice behaviour
The permanent reoccupation of the UK's Halley station depends on how an ice crack develops.
British ice station on the move
The Halley VI Research Station was moved more than 20km across the ice sheet.
Study casts doubt on the idea of ‘big fluffy T. rex’
Evidence suggests the dinosaur had scales rather than feathers or fluff, as some have speculated.
Planet is ‘hotter than most stars’
Scientists spend decades hunting Earth's twin only to turn up the most inhospitable world imaginable.
Racial ‘disparity’ in police respect
Officers speak less respectfully to members of the public who are black than to those who…