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Prehistoric community likely had female-centred social structure, study says

Sports mastery is about much more than physical capability — it shapes the brain, too.

In a paper published recently in Scientific Reports, scientists from IIT Roorkee have characterised dinosaur fossils from the middle-Jurassic period, found in the Thar desert near the Jaisalmer Basin by the Geological Survey of India. They discovered that they had uncovered remains of a sauropod dinosaur, which is the same…

Fossil found in France is not quite modern human and not quite Neanderthal.

The fossilised remains of the dramatic moment frozen in time were discovered

The average disposable diaper has a life cycle of at least 500 years.

Researchers are taking on the challenges of waste and housing affordability, by substituting sand for used nappies in concrete mortar. They've even built a house with the product.

Land-hungry biomass, wind, and solar power are set to occupy an area equivalent of the size of the European Union by 2050.

A study based on digital elevation models has found that even in a moderate climate-change scenario, olive ridley turtle nesting sites on India’s east coast could be completely flooded by rising sea levels by 2050.