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Illustration of the Deinotherium genus, an animal that became extinct after the evolution of humans Heinrich Harder/Florilegius/Alamy An AI-powered analysis of thousands of fossils suggests that…
BThis month in design news, tinkering and hobby crafts get the respect they deserve. Read our articles to see where these wonderful activities are being treated…
The Tanimbar Islands are one of the main island groups of Wallacea (a group of mainly Indonesian islands separated from the Asian and Australian continental shelves…
Artist's impression of a very distant undead galaxyESO/M. Kornmesser A strange zombie-like galaxy has been discovered in the distant universe: the immortal galaxy stopped forming stars…
Argentine archaeologists analyzed 21,000-year-old fossil remains bearing cut marks belonging to a specimen of the extinct glyptodon. NeosclerocalyptusThe discovery, made in the northeast of the Pampean…
Depicts ancient humans butchering a glyptodon 21,000 years ago in South America Damián Volino, A. Scasso Museum of Natural Sciences (Collegio Don Bosco), San Nicolás de…
a New Researchpublished in the journal Geoscience Reviewhelps resolve one of the longest-running debates in paleoanthropology: when did early humans arrive in Europe? Ancient humans. Image…
The Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) is a hypothetical common ancestor of all modern cellular life, from single-celled organisms such as bacteria to giant sequoia trees…
A recent study indicates that multiple instances of gene flow occurring between 250,000 and 200,000 years ago impacted the genomes and biology of both modern humans…
Solar power plantYaor Shen/Getty Images Things are a bit shaky right now, both environmentally and politically, so I decided to call up some experts to find…
The culture that built Stonehenge suffered a mysterious population decline Wirestock/Alamy The European Neolithic culture that produced megaliths like Stonehenge experienced a major decline about 5,400…
A team of paleontologists from Kasetsart University, Mahasarakham University and Sirindhorn Museum have unearthed three fossilized teeth from a previously unknown non-tyrannosaurid tyrannosauroid dinosaur in northeastern…
A newly described trunk tetrapod exceeding 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) in length Gaiacia geniae It was probably the largest organism of its kind. Reconstructing your life…
debtFacebook users of a certain age may remember a particularly lonely-looking farm animal that appeared in their feeds during the platform’s heyday. A lonely cow wandered…
IIn 2002, a group of five Italians garnered local attention for their ambitious project. They aimed to develop games for Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance, becoming the…
Archaeologists have discovered a new human rib specimen in the White Cliff Cave, one of two sites known to have been inhabited by Denisovans. Dating from…
Scientists in South Africa were surprised to find that a termite mound standing in the country’s arid regions is over 30,000 years old, making it the…
Traces of cave paintings depicting pigs and human-like figures from Leang Karampuang, Sulawesi, IndonesiaGriffith University An Indonesian cave painting depicting a pig with a human-like figure…
Reconstruction of Gaiasia geniaeGabriel Rio 280 million years ago, the cold swamps of what is now the Namib Desert were home to giant salamander-like predators that…
Google’s climate footprint reduction targets are at risk due to the rising reliance on energy-intensive data centers to power its new artificial intelligence products. The tech…
Ronaldo, a six-foot-long Brazilian rainbow boa constrictor kept at a British school, was thought to be male until he gave birth to 14 babies last month.…
Paleobotanists have described nine new species of the Vitaceae family. Vitaceae It is based on fossil seeds from four tropical palaeoflora sites, dating back 60 to…
circleWhether referred to as manifestos or contracts, the documents released by political parties before elections often lack substance despite their length. Filled with idealistic scenarios, vague…
Ancient ritual sticks discovered in Australia's Clogs CaveGunaikurnai Land and Water Aboriginal Corporation Wooden artefacts found in Australian caves suggest Aboriginal rituals recorded in the 19th…
Archaeologists from the University of Sydney say eyelets were a new innovation used to decorate clothing for social and cultural purposes, and mark a major shift…
The ancient ship and its cargo are estimated to date to the 13th century BC, making it one of the oldest shipwrecks ever discovered. Canaanite amphorae…
2,000-year-old wine discovered in Roman tomb in Carmona, Spain Juan Manuel Roman/University of Cordoba Chemical analysis has revealed that a reddish liquid discovered in a 2,000-year-old…
About 2.5 billion years ago, free oxygen first began to accumulate in meaningful levels in Earth's atmosphere, setting the stage for the emergence of complex life.…
Italian archaeologists have unearthed the so-called Sacramento in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city frozen in time after the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.…
A cold, dense cloud in the Milky Way’s interstellar medium is about four to five orders of magnitude denser than its diffuse counterparts, and a team…
Illustration of a protection bubble around the sun (yellow dot) and the earth (blue dot)Harvard Radcliffe Institute Two to three million years ago, the solar system…
The discovery was made possible by ESA’s Gaia spacecraft, which is mapping more than a billion stars across the Milky Way galaxy and beyond, tracking their…
Horse domestication began on the Eurasian steppesLina Shatalova/iStockphoto/Getty Images A genetic study of hundreds of ancient horses suggests that ancient breeders dramatically shortened the horse’s natural…
Geologists have analysed 4-billion-year-old zircon crystals from Jack Hills in Western Australia’s mid-west region to date the emergence of fresh water back just a few hundred…
a A few days ago, while I was cleaning out my home office (which resembles a video game arcade that was recently hit by a tornado),…
A recent study has revealed the discovery of a potentially habitable exoplanet that is similar in size to Earth and located in a system 40 light…
About 12,440 to 12,550 years ago, hunter-gatherers regularly returned to Chile’s Lake Taguatagua to hunt an ancient elephant relative called Gomphotherium and exploit other local resources,…
Illustration of the exoplanet Gliese 12B orbiting a cool red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth.NASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology/R. Hart (California Institute of Technology-IPAC) Astronomers have…
Giant puma fungus mushroom discovered in Chile more than 40 years after last sightingFungi Foundation A small mushroom, native to the mountains of Chile, has resurfaced…
Astronomers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered very old stars in the Milky Way’s halo, a cloud of stars that covers the entire disk…