By Paul RinconScience editor, BBC News website
Prof Zhaoyu ZhuScientists say they've found the earliest known evidence of a human presence outside Africa.
Stone tools discovered in China suggest primitive humans - or a close relative - were in the region as early as 2.12 million years ago.
They are about 270,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence, which consists of bones and tools from Dmanisi in Georgia.
The research, by a Chinese-British team, appears in the journal Nature. Read More...
Explore More A federal judge has blocked Biden administration officials from contacting social media companies in a landmark order targeting government censorship and suppression of online postings.
US District Court Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee, determined Tuesday that the White House likely colluded with Big Tech to censor protected speech during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“During … a period perhaps best characterized by widespread doubt and uncertainty, the United States Government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth,’” Doughty wrote in his 155-page order. Read More...
By David CoxFeatures correspondent
iStockYellowstone harbours a giant magma chamber that will blow one day if we don't act (Credit: iStock)With an eruption brewing, it may be the only way to prevent the extinction of the human race.
Lying beneath the tranquil settings of Yellowstone National Park in the US lies an enormous magma chamber. It’s responsible for the geysers and hot springs that define the area, but for scientists at Nasa, it’s also one of the greatest natural threats to human civilisation as we know it: a potential supervolcano. Read More...