Imagine Earth covered in thick sheets of ice. And sea levels so low you could walk to a different continent. This is what our planet would look like during an ice age. There have been five of them in ...

Researchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between ...

Ice Age teens entered puberty around 13, like today’s teens. Bone markers revealed key puberty stages and new insights on ...

Long extinct, they won’t be found but fossils of some of them and other creatures unearthed during construction of the ...

On the other end of the spectrum, Sri Lanka features the world's lowest retirement age, at 55. A few other countries, primarily in the developing world, have similarly lower retirement ages due to ...

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are "Snowball Earth" events that happened hundreds of ...

The Chinese government, in one fell swoop, approved two measures to prop up that country’s wobbly retirement system: an increase in the retirement age and a hike in the number of years workers ...

Is that selfish? Read: China raises retirement age, currently among the lowest of the world’s major economies This change was announced Friday by the country’s legislature, following “a ...

Starting next year, China will raise its retirement age for workers, which is now among the youngest in the world's major economies, in an effort to address its shrinking population and aging work ...

Israel carried out one of the most intense bombardments of the past year, as warplanes launched 70 airstrikes, Lebanese security officials said. The barrage came shortly after Hezbollah’s leader ...

China starting next year will raise its retirement age for workers, which is now among the youngest in the world's major economies. The extension was considered long overdue in a country facing a ...