A deep-rooted population structure emerged, suggesting modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the result of a population that split in two about 1.5 million years ago, and then, only 300,000 years ago, ...

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight?

A scientific debate has emerged regarding the possibility of producing 'dark oxygen' without sunlight, through metallic ...

Human embryos briefly exhibit traits like tails and gill-like structures, revealing our evolutionary history and deep ...

Commercial production of undersea mining could become a reality in less than five years, but at a potentially high cost to seafloor ecosystems, panellists told the Prospectors & Developers ...

MANY scientists will have read with keen interest Prof. MacBride's delightful sketch of Haeckel's work in NATURE of February 10. As he points out, Haeckel's career belongs to the heroic stage of ...

Michel Nieva, the author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, Dengue Boy, on his story of a drowned, pandemic-struck future Earth – and his unusual protagonist ...

Madison also takes incredible photos, both with the scanning electron microscope and her camera. She works with the photogenic foraminifera, single-celled organisms made famous by the psychedelic ...

THE career of Prof. Ernst Heiririch Haeckel, the centenary of whose birth falls on February 16, belongs to the heroic stage of the history of the theory of evolution. In 1862, at the early age of ...

Haeckel’s Radiolarians After completing his studies in medicine and biology, Prussian naturalist Ernst Haeckel set off for Italy in 1859, where, in addition to painting landscapes, he spent the ...