The Great London [01/11/17] 

  • Astrophysics: The Big Bang might have been just a Big Bounce

    A new study of the early universe reveals how it could have been formed from an older collapsing universe, rather than being brand new.An international team of researchers has backed up the growing hypothesis that the Big Bang was actually a 'Big Bounce', meaning that the Universe didn’t pop into existence but simply started expan…

  • Fossils: New Piltdown hoax analysis points to work of 'lone forger'

    The Piltdown Man scandal is arguably the greatest scientific fraud ever perpetrated in the UK, with fake fossils being claimed as evidence of our earliest ancestor.The faked fossilized remains of Piltdown man (stained to look old), newspaper articles from the 1950s exposing the fraud.  Inset: Charles Dawson, who the new article cl…

  • UK: Britain's last hunter-gatherers discovered using breakthrough analysis of bone fragments

    Archaeologists from the Universities of York, Cambridge and UCL have identified rare human bones from the UK dating to the Late Mesolithic era (around 4000 BC, just prior to the arrival of farming in Britain) using an innovative new bone collagen analysis technique.Selection of bone fragments from the Cnoc Coig assemblage used wit…

  • Human Evolution: DNA from Neanderthal relative may shake up human family tree

    In a remarkable technical feat, researchers have sequenced DNA from fossils in Spain that are about 300,000 to 400,000 years old and have found an ancestor—or close relative—of Neanderthals. The nuclear DNA, which is the oldest ever sequenced from a member of the human family, may push back the date for the origins of the distinct…

  • Fossils: Unearthed: The cannibal sharks of a forgotten age

    Scientists have discovered macabre fossil evidence suggesting that 300 million-year-old sharks ate their own young, as fossil poop of adult Orthacanthus sharks contained the tiny teeth of juveniles. These fearsome marine predators used protected coastal lagoons to rear their babies, but it seems they also resorted to cannibalising…

  1. The Lapita: Oceanic Ancestors exhibition at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris
  2. Bulgaria to unveil 10,000 unique archaeology treasures
  3. Public to see limestone box that may have been casket for Jesus’ brother
  4. 'Rhodes: A Greek Island and Gateway to the East' at the Louvre
  5. Ancient tablets reveal mathematical achievements of ancient Babylonian culture