More than a decade on from the day it vanished, the search has resumed for missing Flight MH370, and it's believed the jet could be stuck in an eerie 'black hole' in the Indian Ocean. In the early ...

Hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members awaiting deportation from the US have been transferred to a high-security mega-prison in El Salvador as part of Donald Trump's vow to crack down on ...

We've long assumed our species evolved from a tidy, single stream of ancestors. But life on Earth is never quite so straightforward, especially not when it comes to the most socially complex species ...

Spending time in space and having an unrivalled view of planet Earth is an experience many of us dream of. However, the human body evolved to function in the gravity of Earth. So time in the ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Using advanced analysis ...

The excavation and research team at Atapuerca receives funding from the Castille and León Department of Culture and Tourism, the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (PID2021 ...

The mystery behind a massive 'gravity hole' that is pulling down the Indian Ocean now has some clarity after being explained by scientists. For decades, the Indian Ocean geoid low (IOGL) baffled ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Let’s talk about the biggest coincidence in human ...

This anomaly has long perplexed geologists, but researchers at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, India, have now come up with a new explanation for its formation. They suggest that ...

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The 'ozone hole,' a phenomenon in which ozone levels over Antarctica decrease during the Southern Hemisphere's spring period from September to December and appear as if a hole has opened up, was ...