Oldest human skull outside Africa identified as 210,000 years old

A 210,000-year-old human skull could provide new evidence that our species left Africa much earlier than…

Harnessing big data and machine learning to forecast wildfires in the western U.S.

The area burned by wildfires each year across the Western United States has increased by more…

Artificial intelligence may be used to reveal secrets behind traditional folk music dating back thousands of years

The secrets behind traditional folk music from across the globe and dating back thousands of years…

Airbnb cedes to EU pressure on price offers

Airbnb has successfully fended off Brussels regulators in time for the summer holidays by agreeing to…

The nose of E. coli zips open and closed

With ice-cold electron microscopy microbiologists from Leiden gain more insight into how bacteria respond to their…

Light may increase magnetic memory speeds 1000 times, decrease electricity consumption

Internet searches, decade-old emails and on-demand video offerings help contribute to electricity consumption by America’s server…

Island cores unravel mysteries of ancient Maltese civilisation

The mysteries of an ancient civilisation that survived for more than a millennium on the island…

For climbing robots, the sky's the limit

Robots can drive on the plains and craters ofMars, but what if we could explore cliffs,…

France passes law taxing digital giants in defiance of US anger

France on Thursday became the first major economy to impose a tax on digital giants, with…

Book traces the history of urbanism through an archaeological lens

The only thing a person really needs to be an archaeologist is a good sense of…