June 27, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you ...

Thomas Mulligan examines the scientific verification of a strange mummified specimen discovered in the Atacama Desert that ...

Roopkund Lake sits in a frozen pocket of the Himalayas where hundreds of people died across a millennium. So why did ...

With fewer than 10 individuals left alive and captive breeding off the table, the vaquita has almost no margin for error. A ...

This potentially all-female burial site opens up new questions regarding Homo naledi’s culture and social structure. If the ...

Then advances in ancient DNA revealed a story of this child, buried over ten thousand years ago. It was a story far greater than anyone could have guessed. The child known to archaeologists as the ...

Roopkund Lake's "Skeleton Lake" mystery has been solved. For decades, hundreds of human bones hinted at a single catastrophe. However, DNA analysis revealed multiple, genetically distinct groups, ...

Ranchi: In a fresh development in the case of 18-year-old Pushpa Kumari, who went missing nearly 11 months ago from Jharkhand ...

The permanent loss of amputated digits and limbs is the cost of being human. While worms, amphibians, fish and echinoderms ...

NOT far from where the battered body of 12-year-old Mercedez Layne was found on June 7, human remains were discovered near an ...

"Although some additional assumptions have gone into the estimated length, the rediscovery of the vertebrae from Denmark ...

It is alleged that the bones had been exhumed from a cemetery in Clairwood before being transported and dumped in the area.