Ashwellthorpe Lower Wood in Norfolk, England has been managed by coppicing, an ancient form of forestry, for more than a thousand years. It was recorded as coppiced woodland in the Domesday Book published…
Robotic and autonomous underwater vehicles have collected vast quantities of footage from the deep sea, but most of it hasn’t been analysed.
Oxygen flooded the atmosphere for the first time and then … nothing. Or so we thought.
When the Spanish conquered South America in the 16th century they took over the Incas’ mines and soon began to pump clouds of lead dust over the Andes. The silver the conquistadors sent back home made…
By 43AD, when southern Britain became a Roman colony under emperor Claudius, the island was populated by speakers of several Celtic languages.
A great white shark is headed in the UK’s direction, but even better than that – according to the pundits it’s a great white mummy, in the family way. In fact the scientific value of this observation doesn’t…
It’s time to listen to warnings from the people of the Pacific.
When a human bone was found on a gravelly riverbank by a bone-carver who was searching for mammoth ivory, little did he know it would provide the oldest modern-human genome yet sequenced. The anatomically…
Though it’s fairly straightforward to locate the Earth’s moon in space today, there is a fundamental gap in our understanding of how it got there.
Our results have revolutionised the previously held view of the evolution of mammoths.
