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British scientists have uncovered the world's oldest footprints found outside of Africa. Discovered along the Norfolk coast, the prints are about 800,000 years old. YouTube

A veteran Loch Ness monster spotter says there have been no "confirmed sightings" of the legendary creature since 1925. Wikimedia Commons What happened to Nessie?

Getting in the right shape might be just as important in a biology lab as a gym. Shape is thought to play an important role in the effectiveness of cells grown to repair or replace damaged tissue in the body. To help des...

Footprints pressed into the mud of modern-day England more than 800,000 years ago might represent the oldest known human tracks ever found in Europe, archaeologists say.

Dragonfly mating involves violent battles, flashy courtship dances and heart-shaped coitus.

While men are quicker to change employers today than they were 30 years ago, women stick with their jobs for significantly longer than they used to.

An unbelievable ice cave, our electric Earth and the Olympic Games in Sochi from space - a few of our amazing picks from this week.

Can the coal industry blame its fading status on the federal government?

Only treating the symptoms of a problem may mask the real issue at hand.

Eat a chocolate a day, but check the label first.

With a flurry of winter storms hitting the Northeast this week, we had some snow on the brain. So we decided to talk to an expert on the topic. David Robinson is a Rutgers University scientist, and when he's not performi...

It's your worst winter nightmare: the temperatures drop, and then the heat and power goes out. It's been a reality for many Americans during recent snowstorms, thanks to the many ways that severe winter weather can have ...

There are alternatives to culling animals in cities, so why does the practice continue?

The Permian Period lasted from 299 million to 251 million years ago. Two groups of animals that dominated the period would later branch into mammals and reptiles.

This week in science, we learned about a magnetic internal compass that salmon use to navigate; responded to some creationist questions and arguments; and got a look at a wobbly little planet in the Cygnus constellation ...

Quite simply because the science of crystallography has revolutionised how we live - and yet few people know about it.

We may not spend a lot of time thinking about the emoticons we insert into our emails and text messages, but it turns out that they reveal something interesting about the way we perceive facial expressions.

Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal, the opening created by the small hole found in each of the vertebrae that make up the human spinal column.

Findings could also explain why they're invisible to night-vision goggles.

NASA's Aqua satellite snapped a photo of a dust storm blowing over the Taklimakan Desert in China on Feb. 1, 2014. The source of the dust is actually seasonal ponds that leave behind minerals picked up by winds.

A clever new idea could save renewable energy for when the wind is not blowing and the sun is not shining.