Visitors explore the Dinosaur Hall at the Shenzhen Natural History Museum in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province.

Adam Rutherford salutes a show that finally links the spectacle of natural history with the science that explains it ...

Household dust contains discarded skin cells from our bodies. Bill Bryson's quote highlights this constant shedding process.

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Researchers say a tiny one-eyed ancestor that lived nearly 600 million years ago may have shaped the evolution of every vertebrate eye, including our own. They also found that its ancient median eye ...

Scientists Say a New Discovery Could Rewrite the Origin of Life ...

Long before dinosaurs ruled the continents and modern crocodiles first appeared, their ancestors were already going through a ...

The Rapture BBC One, 9pm; all episodes available today on iPlayer Adapted by Bryony Kimmings from Liz Jensen’s novel, The ...

July 4 marked 250 years since the nation’s founding, and reminders of the role played by the Army and the Signal Corps in the ...

From friendship in a world of chatbots to what it means to be alive, this month’s new popular science books are asking some big questions. Liz Else rounds up the ones she’s most looking forward to ...

In searches for past and present Martian life, some scientists say we’ve been too cautious to see what’s right in front of us ...