Earth's last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago and a new study predicts the next one should be 10,000 years away. But the researchers say record rates of fossil fuel burning that are increasing ...

"Such a transition to a glacial state in 10,000 years' time is very unlikely to happen, because human emissions of carbon ...

The Earth has gone through successive glacial and interglacial periods for about 2.5 million years. A new study reveals when ...

David Armstrong McKay is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Sussex and the lead author of a 2022 paper that ...

Explore the fascinating world of early humans and their shared cultural practices 100,000 years ago in the Levant region.

Lenton, the founding director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, was the lead author of the 2008 ...

A 770,000-year-old mystery is not something you stumble across every day, and it's making these researchers reconsider some things.

Feb. 27, 2025 — Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and birds that can't. They found ...

Jan. 28, 2025 — A team of stem cell scientists have successfully used embryonic stem cell engineering to create a bi-paternal mouse -- a mouse with two male parents -- that lived until adulthood ...