Mosquitoes transmit diseases like dengue, Zika, and malaria, making this shift a significant public health concern.

If aliens from space can die and mourn their dead then they likely invented gods to worship. Because they missed their loved ...

Two prehistoric genomes have revealed the history of HPV and challenged the idea that Neanderthals first transmitted the ...

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Ranging from supernatural frights to masked killers with the ability to be in multiple places at once, the following horror ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Some animals on Earth look so unusual that they appear almost alien. Their shapes, movements, and survival strategies challenge familiar ideas of what life should look like. Scientists study these ...

Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in 1935, von Däniken rose to prominence when he published Chariots of the Gods? while working as a hotel manager in Davos. The book posed a provocative question that ...

Erich von Däniken, who has died aged 90, was among the first writers to suggest that human civilisation, and even human ...