A 52-million-year-old ankle fossil suggests our prehuman ancestors were high-flying acrobats. These first primates spent most of their time in the trees rather than on the ground, but just how nimble they were as they moved around in the treetops has been a topic of dispute.

NASA scientists have found evidence that Mars’ crust is not as dense as previously thought, a clue that could help researchers better understand the Red Planet’s interior structure and evolution.

Professor Stephen Hawking believes we will reach other planets as settlers “in the next hundred years”. And he reckons starships will eventually take “just a few years” to get us to planets that can be colonised. The scientist believes we face extinction from threats including pollution and climate change unless we go to new homes like Proxima b – 4.2 light years away and the nearest habitable planet.

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Queen’s University Belfast scientists have designed a new flexible organic battery that could revolutionise how medical implants are powered.

NASA‘s Juno spacecraft performed its eighth flyby of Jupiter and captured stunning images of the planet. The photos – captured on September 1 – show various points of interest on the giant gas planet in incredible detail.

When retired Georgia Tech professor Judith Curry penned a blog post on her “Climate Etc.” website suggesting that it was scientifically irresponsible to tie the intensity of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma directly to climate change, she probably didn’t expect that she might trigger 1,000’s of progressives to call for her immediate imprisonment.

A puzzling study of U.S. pregnancies found that women who had miscarriages between 2010 and 2012 were more likely to have had back-to-back annual flu shots that included protection against swine flu.

New study presents an algorithm that helps scientists identify coldest and hottest time periods. The algorithm is applied to a case study performed by Dr Darko Butina of winters recorded at Armagh Observatory (pictured) over a 161-year period between 1844 and 2004.

Hurricane season is upon us. Harvey last week and Irma this week. Both monster storms are long overdue if one looks at the pattern of hurricanes throughout history.

The vultures of climate alarmism are just loving this run of hurricane disasters.

On this date in the year 1900, Galveston, Texas (where I had the first date with my future wife) was destroyed by a hurricane. Ten thousand people died in America’s costliest natural disaster.

Graph Source Duchez et al., 2016

Contrary to expectations, climate scientists continue to report that large regions of the Earth have not been warming in recent decades.

As well as forming the building blocks for many roadways, bridges and skyscrapers, it appears concrete might also have another beneficial use – combating air pollution. A new study conducted by researchers at the Stony Brook University in New York has found that powdered concrete could provide an innovative method of sucking contaminants out of the air.

Scientists investigating risks to the UK from tsunamis have found evidence that a huge legendary flood once hit our shores.

Tsunamis are caused by earthquakes at sea – sending walls of water long distances in a circle around the fault zone – but they could even be caused an asteroid impact. And now there are new indications that massive tsunami hit Britain more than 1,000 years ago.

Lotfi Zadeh, a world-renowned Azerbaijani scientist who invented the breakthrough computing concept of fuzzy logic, has passed away at the age of 96.