The presence of pyrite was an unmistakable sign. Striking flint against pyrite nodules creates sparks, and which can be used to start fire. This pushes back the earliest known controlled use of fire ...

The impact of climate change has only been scientifically investigated in around 6% of the 816 zoonotic diseases that affect humans. · The findings highlight the risk posed by ...

Even in diseases where the climate risks have been studied, there’s a lot of variability. While higher temperatures have been linked with a higher risk of disease, that’s not always the case. For ...

All Liaoningosaurus specimens come from Liaoning Province in northeastern China. Many remarkable fossils from the Cretaceous Period, between 145 and 66 million years ago, have been unearthed in this ...

Meteorites are like a time machine and spacecraft all in one. Discover how our scientists use rare specimens in the meteorite ...

AMISTAD, a new collections-based research project led by London’s Natural History Museum, is working on untangling the identities of a group of blue butterflies from South America.

Hopefully, it’s a problem that butterfly researchers won’t have to face for too much longer. A new museum research project, known as AMISTAD, is combining ancient DNA, modern computing technology and ...

The official peer-reviewed journal of the society for research papers on any aspects of mites and ticks from authors around the world. Indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded, Biosis Preview, ...

The Museum's botany collection holds an estimated 5.25 million specimens of algae, bryophytes, ferns, seed plants, lichens and slime moulds from all over the world. The botanical collection spans a ...

Sites in Africa suggest humans used natural fire over a million years ago, but the discovery at the Palaeolithic site in Barnham evidences the creation and control of fire, which carries huge ...

Over a period of five years, researchers sampled the deep-sea floor of the CCZ three times before and one time two months ...