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This week’s picks Mo Gilligan: Beginning, Middle, End Widely available, with weekly episodes Mo Gilligan is as loveable as ever in his new podcast series, inviting…
“Fortnite” is making a comeback on mobile phones after four years of being absent from Apple and Google app stores. Android users worldwide can now download…
Paleontologists have discovered the fossilized bones of a new species of parrot. Agapornis The event will take place in three regions of the UNESCO World Heritage…
Over the past five years, there have been more than 1,400 ambulance dispatches to Amazon warehouses, a figure that has been described as shocking by the…
The most unsettling archaeological find of the year so far has been the Egyptian researchers who have finally solved the mystery surrounding the infamous “Screaming Woman”…
Use of Data ESA's Gaia mission Astronomers have discovered a number of metal-poor stars that are more than 13 billion years old and in orbits similar…
New genus and species of monophenestratan pterosaur named Propterodacillus frankellae It documents the transition from the older rhamphorhynchoid pterosaurs to pterodactyloids. The holotype Propterodacillus frankellaeImage credit:…
Peru’s Kecheke Glacier is retreating due to global warmingEmilio Mateo/Aspen Global Change Institute Andean glaciers are almost certainly smaller than they have been for at least…
COVID-19 could have lasting effects on our mental and physical health Alexander Davidov / Alamy There is evidence that people who were hospitalized with COVID-19 during…
Scientists have widely accepted that complex life first appeared on Earth around 635 million years ago (during the Ediacaran Period). However, an international team of paleontologists…
Extinct giant aquatic arthropods called sea scorpions (Eurypterids) were apex predators. A new study suggests that early species of carcinosomatoids, with their scorpion-like spiny limbs, fed…
Artistic illustration of a floating planetMaspix/Alamy The Sun's gravity could potentially capture objects, such as interstellar comets or rogue planets, from as far away as 3.8…
The evolution of the first animals to appear on land 500 million years ago has been revealed. The ancestors of millipedes, called euticalcinids, evolved from larval…
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…