"While, up until now, scholars have largely held that man's first rituals were carried out over 40, 000 years ago in Europe, it now appears that they were wrong about both the time and place.&quo

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"... a theory which suggests that the ancient monument was a source and centre for healing and not a place for the dead as believed by many previous scholars."

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"Hazy skies on early Earth could have provided a substantial source of organic material useful for emerging life on the planet..."

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"The reason history is littered with suspiciously regular extinctions is all down to the Earth's wobbly orbit, according to research published today." Well, not entirely, but it looks like i

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Recent tests with frozen sperm offer hope that prehistoric animals could be recreated by inseminating modern relatives. Crichton's conceit gets another crack of the whip.

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...and evidence is gathering that greenhouse gases have done exceptionally nasty things to the Earth's climate before.

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