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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…
Paleontologists from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Kent State University, the University of Michigan, and the City University of New York have discovered the…
international team of archaeologists ROOTS Cluster of Excellence A Late Neolithic settlement was discovered near the Tamis River in the northernmost tip of Serbia. A map…
LONDON — She looks pretty good for her 75,000 years. Especially considering that her skull was likely shattered into 200 pieces by a rockfall before being…
A recent report released by Congressional Democrats reveals that big oil companies have been deceiving the American public about the dangers of man-made climate change for…
100 years later, arctic butterflies feel the effects of commercial whalingDoc White/Nature Picture Library/Alamy Commercial whaling of bowhead whales ended about a century ago, but the…
○On April 21, 1989, Nintendo released a chunky gray gameplay rectangle for Japanese stores. It’s safe to say that no one expected much of it. Inside…
Io, Jupiter’s innermost moon, is the most volcanically active object in the solar system. Joshimer Binas/Alamy Stock Photo Jupiter’s moon Io has been continually modified by…
New archaeological excavations show that the Umm Jirsan lava tubes in Halat Khyber, northwestern Saudi Arabia, have been repeatedly visited by humans from at least the…
An international team of scientists has generated the highest quality reference genome to date for coffee arabica, the world's most popular coffee species (arabica coffee tree).…
Archaeologists from Necmettin Erbakan University have announced the discovery of the world’s oldest known bread, dating from 6600 BC, at the famous Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük…
Tesla experienced its first drop in vehicle deliveries in almost four years, failing to meet Wall Street’s expectations. This indicates that the impact of price reductions…
Crypto mogul Sam Bankman Freed, disgraced for his role in the largest financial fraud in history, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered…
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‘I “I remember rushing home from school just to play Rollercoaster Tycoon,” says Merlin Entertainments, the owner of UK-based theme parks including Olton Towers, Chessington World…
MWhen I was a kid, my parents were somewhat skeptical of video games. When I was a kid, I had a Super Nintendo and his N64,…
Humans have a long history of transporting and trading plants, contributing to the evolution of cultivated plants. The cacao tree (Theobroma cacao), whose beans are used…
Canoes are up to 10 meters long and are made by hollowing out trees. Gibaja et al., 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 More than 7,000 years…
A 1,000-year-old human brain unearthed from a churchyard in Ypres, Belgium.The tissue folds, which are still soft and wet, are stained orange with iron oxide.Alexandra L.…
MMy memories of learning to play the piano as a child in the early 1990s may have been clouded by pride. I can still picture the…
Aboriginal people use fire to manage the landscapePenny Tweedy/Getty Images Analysis of sediment cores taken from ancient lakes shows that Australia's indigenous peoples have been using…
Here is some encouraging environmental news that we all need to hear. Efforts to restore the natural world can yield positive results. A project spearheaded by…
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is experiencing significant heat-induced coral bleaching once again, as confirmed by the country’s government on Friday. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park…
T A few years ago, a game developer’s tormented ex-boyfriend published a vindictive article accusing her of trading sex to get positive reviews for her indie…
Some giant white dwarfs appear to stop aging for billions of years.Maybe now you can understand why NASA, ESA, P. McGill (University of California Santa Cruz,…
This stability exists despite the incredible diversity in wing patterns, sizes, and caterpillar morphology across more than 160,000 species worldwide today, according to one study. new…
on the other hand This is perhaps the most politically insightful psychological study published in the past 60 years. And maybe not. The study of the…
Iojima is itself a volcano, located on the edge of the massive underwater Akahoya volcanic caldera.Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images The largest volcanic eruption in current…