Over the last 12 months, scientists from London’s Natural History Museum have been busy collecting, studying and cataloguing the extraordinary diversity of life on Earth. Museum scientists have given ...

We look ahead and pick the best exhibitions to see in London's galleries and museums opening in 2026.

Exactly 10 years since he blasted into space, Tim Peake reveals the lessons he learned in orbit - and what the future holds for public space travel ...

WHEN it comes to Christmas, you probably have a lot of family plans and then for the New Year, you might be seeing friends – ...

An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton actually had fairer skin and was from southern England, researchers using new ...

A woman billed as the 'earliest black Briton' was in fact white and from southern England, according to new DNA analysis.

The secrets of two Bronze Age individuals, unearthed by a farmer ploughing a field on the Isle of Bute, are now being ...

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Evidence of a hearth dating to about 415,000 years ago Researchers think that Neanderthals were responsible Discovery made near the village of Barnham in Suffolk Dec 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more than 400,000 years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

As fans celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, scholars are still combing over documents to solve the mystery shrouding her final days.

Northwestern Engineering’s Zdeněk Bažant and Omar Farha have been named 2025 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors ...