Solar storms cause disturbances in the Earth's magnetic shield, or magnetosphere. One frequent way they are caused is by ...

The final two chapters focus on recent changes in Irish food culture over the last six decades. Firstly, the growing ...

In September 1859, the same year that Darwin published "On the Origin of Species," telegraph systems across Europe and North ...

Scientists have mapped the genome of the Greenland shark, which could offer clues to the animal’s extreme longevity.

Researchers and local Indigenous people say a beautifully preserved metre-wide and 40-centimetres-high tree stump may be a ...

New findings suggest alternative reasons for the rapid demographic changes in Iberia between the Copper and Bronze Ages.

One extreme solar storm known to have occurred in AD774, for example, would have dwarfed the Carrington event. Radiocarbon, ...

Recent research has uncovered evidence of several extreme solar storms that struck Earth in the distant past, with ...

The first 2,000-year-old date seedling was named Methuselah (after the longest-lived person in the Bible) and is now ...