Only a few thousand years ago, the planet's geography was drastically different than it is today. Massive ice sheets stored atop the poles lowered sea levels and exposed a number of interesting and ...

Ice-age children are behind some unusual drawings in the Las Monedas Cave in Spain, a new study claims. Here & Now 's Peter O'Dowd talks with Isobel Wisher, a postdoctoral researcher in the Evolution ...

How did woolly mammoths survive the last ice age? And how thick was the ice over New York City? Test your knowledge by taking ...

The UK's communications regulator has published guidance for website operators aimed at preventing under-18s from accessing pornographic content online via "highly effective age assurance" techniques.

The median age of voting members of the House of Representatives is now 57.5 years. That’s down from 57.9 at the start of the 118th Congress (2023-25), 58.9 in the 117th Congress (2021-23), 58.0 in ...

Gaza as we know it no longer exists, and when Israeli leaders and generals boast of having bombed Gaza “back to the Stone Age,” they are not speaking in metaphorical terms. Israel has destroyed Gaza ...

The Kenya Ice Lions have made vast strides since the team was founded in 2016 In Nairobi, the average temperature is more than 20C, yet there is one place in Kenya's capital where it does not even ...

For the past almost three decades she has continued to probe this field. “When we age, the immune system becomes either insufficient or exhausted,” Schwartz said. “The aging immune system ...

In 2021, there were 17 people aged 65 and over for every 100 people aged 20 to 64 (this is the so-called “old-age dependency ratio”); by 2050, there will be 29 for every 100. So far ...

Even so, the amount of vitamin your body creates depends on factors like age, skin pigmentation, geographical location, sunscreen use, the clothes you wear, and health conditions that may hinder ...

Black ice is a well-known weather slang term for patchy ice that cannot be seen on roadways or other surfaces. In its typical form, black ice is completely transparent, only called "black" because ...