Modern humans evolved much earlier than previously thought, researchers reported Wednesday.

New discoveries at a rich site in Morocco show modern humans were hunting and probably cooking game animals 300,000 years ago — 100,000 years earlier than scientists have believed until now.

Over the past century, the percent of the US affected by hot weather on June 7 has declined. The five hottest June 11ths were 1933, 2011, 1952, 1963 and 1988.

On June 7, 1933, almost the entire eastern half of the US was over 90 degrees, and much was over 100 degrees.

Offshore wind turbines built according to current standards may not be able to withstand the powerful gusts of a Category 5 hurricane, creating the potential risk for any such turbines built in hurricane-prone areas, new University of Colorado Boulder-led research shows.

New peer-reviewed paper on the greenhouse gas theory is causing tremors among scientists who claim carbon dioxide controls climate. The new paper gives a robust mathematical proof backing a controversial book debunking the ‘settled science’ greenhouse gas effect (GHE).

A team of Czech scientists says they have discovered a new branch of meteors belonging to the meteor stream known as the Taurus — a branch featuring asteroids that could pose a serious threat to Earth in the near future.

Scientists claim that Arctic sea ice is experiencing a record decline.

As Arctic Sea Ice Shows Record Decline, Scientists Prepare to Go Blind

Data from NSIDC shows that the Arctic is actually experiencing a record low decline in sea ice, since the peak on March 3.

The reduction in global temperature after the recent El Nino continues though not as swiftly as some predicted. The next few months will be interesting to see if it returns to levels seen before the recent El Nino took place when global annual average temperatures changed little for at least 15 years.

A scientist claims to have debunked what’s considered the best evidence of intelligent alien life, presenting findings that an undiscovered comet produced a 1977 deep space radio signal.

Fresh technology developed in Japan may be about to swing the global energy pendulum back toward coal, by turning the old fossil fuel into a much cleaner energy source. 

Tyrannosaurus Rex had scales, not feathers, said a study Wednesday which rescues the giant lizard’s reputation as a fearsome killer with a rough-and-tough hide.

“Global warming” is a myth — so say 80 graphs from 58 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2017.

NASA has recently unveiled its futuristic Mars rover concept vehicle at Kennedy Space Center, and it looks something out of this world.

Life in the Arctic ocean is much more resistant to global warming than previously suspected, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Aberdeen.

The study, published Tuesday, refutes speculations that global warming would cause a massive disruption to the Arctic ecosystem by killing off the algae living under sea ice.

In a race to catch up with its competitors, Apple on Monday unveiled a smart home speaker and numerous software updates emphasizing artificial intelligence at the Worldwide Developers Conference.

The EU’s total greenhouse gas emissions increased in 2015 for the first time since 2010.