By Stephen Beech Man's ancestors transported stones over long distances to craft tools 2.6 million years ago - 600,000 years earlier than previously thought. Stone tools unearthed in Kenya reveal that ...

Ocean Photographer of the Year finalists showcase blue planet’s beauty The images that celebrate the ocean’s beauty also highlight the urgent need to protect it.

Knowledge dump: Museum launches exhibit all about poo Visitors will be able to explore poo through ‘smell, touch and discovery', according to the museum.

A teacher was diagnosed with breast cancer at just 22 years old - after she noticed a "pea-sized lump." Erin Johnston, from Greenwich, southeast London, was diagnosed with cancer for the first time in ...

Cancer drugs that have been around for two decades were able to eliminate aggressive tumors in a "remarkable" clinical trial. Two patients - one with the deadliest form of skin cancer called melanoma ...

A deadly form of cancer could soon be detected early by AI simply listening to a patient's voice, scientists say. They believe state-of-the-art machine learning technology will be able to spot early ...

Calorie labels on takeout widely ignored by hungry customers A new study found that taste and price are the key factors when ordering food online rather than the calorie content.

A missing tortoise which escaped from its garden one month ago has been found THREE miles away - after going on the run at 0.0041mph.

The soaring cost of living and financial pressures on families have forced six in 10 parents into debt to provide for their children. That’s according to a survey of 2,000 parents of children aged ...

Video shows the moment a "curious" seal pup climbed aboard a rower's boat. The footage captured by passerby Corentyn Smith shows a young seal climbing onto the front of the rower's boat. He said the ...