Scientists have identified a part of the brain that could be treated to improve social interaction in people with autism.

EARLY ancestors of modern humans may have left Africa far earlier than was previously thought, new research suggests.

RESEARCHERS today announced proof that reptiles were the first vertebrates to conquer dry land with the discovery of 318-million-year-old footprints.

Gardening Women: Their stories from 1600 to the present

Ethiopian, American and European researchers have observed a fissure in a desert in the remote northeast of Ethiopia that could be the “birth of a new ocean basin”, scientists said.