Michael Marshall

A new style of song is sweeping through Canada, pushing out traditional tunes

People who watch a lot of horror films, and those who are morbidly curious about unpleasant subjects, seem to be more psychologically resilient to the covid-19 pandemic

Scotland is only weeks away from suppressing the coronavirus altogether, a situation that highlights the different approaches taken by the nation and England in recent months

Trace metals like iron and copper became rare in the oceans between 2 and 1.2 billion years ago, after having been abundant for the previous billion years

The biggest lightning flash on record spanned 709 kilometres – about the distance from London to Geneva, and more than twice the previous record

In some parts of the US, police kill black people at a rate six times higher than they kill white people

The only rodents to ever have horns on their noses probably used their horns to fight off predators

A dinosaur-era animal laid one of the largest eggs ever, measuring 29 by 20 centimetres

The first dinosaurs laid soft eggs and it was only later that some groups evolved eggs with hard shells

Some of the earliest microorganisms may have been able to move around under their own power using whip-like “tails”

Vast floods caused by sea level rise may have helped dinosaurs take over the planet

Forscher ergründen die biologischen Gemeinsamkeiten psychischer Störungen. Manche glauben, diese Erkrankungen könnten die gleichen Ursachen haben, obwohl sie auf den ersten Blick sehr verschieden sind

A tiny carving of a bird discovered in what is now China is the oldest known sculpture unearthed there

A medieval forerunner to the Great Wall of China was thought to have been designed to defend against the Mongol armies of Genghis Khan, but the first major study of this wall suggests it was built before he was born

Key building blocks of DNA and RNA can be made from the same raw materials. This finding suggests that both chemicals were involved in the first organisms