Neanderthals may have used specialized hearths to make tar around 65,000 years ago, a new study finds. | Continue reading
Aftershock II, a new rocket built by students at the University of Southern California, recently broke a number of 20-year-old amateur spaceflight records for altitude, power and speed. It reached more than 470,000 feet above Earth's surface and went "hypersonic." | Continue reading
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, has been scraping users’ scans of the world to build a model that will help robots navigate physical space. Some experts are worried about the potential applications. | Continue reading
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Amazon has dropped an incredible early Black Friday discount on the Adidas Ultraboost Light which features in our best running shoes guide. | Continue reading
Does light behave more like a particle, or like a wave? Today we know the surprising answer. Here's why it took so long to get there. | Continue reading
The demonstrator craft is an important proof-of-concept for the return of supersonic commercial operations. | Continue reading
The latest congressional UFO hearing featured testimony from former military personnel who told representatives that excessive government secrecy hides the fact that we are not alone in the cosmos. | Continue reading
"Butterfly disease" is a potentially fatal, inherited disorder that causes patients to blister very easily. | Continue reading
NASA satellites discovered that Earth's surface has lost enough water to empty Lake Erie two and a half times since 2015. And the problem could be here to stay. | Continue reading
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The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning letter to a Tom's of Maine facility in Sanford that makes toothpaste. | Continue reading
Scientists published more than three dozen papers as part of the Human Cell Atlas, an effort to map the human body cell by cell. | Continue reading
New modeling research reveals that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is particularly vulnerable to shifts in the Irminger Sea from increasing Arctic meltwater inflow. | Continue reading
Active volcanoes were erupting on the far side of the moon 2.8 billion years ago, the first lunar samples returned from the far side reveal. | Continue reading
Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how this iconic species lived and died. | Continue reading
Lucy lived in a wide range of habitats from northern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. Researchers now believe she wasn't the only australopithecine species there. | Continue reading
A 70-foot-long Apatosaurus skeleton, named Vulcan, recently became the biggest dinosaur fossil ever sold when it was acquired for around $6.4 million at an auction in France. The sizable remains weigh more than 22 tons. | Continue reading
The "King Solomon" pendant likely belonged to a cavalry soldier stationed at the ancient Byzantine city of Hadrianopolis. | Continue reading
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Scientists in Australia say they've cracked a key hurdle facing the the development of scalable quantum computers and practical quantum data storage. | Continue reading
A man's attempt at self-medicating with shrooms resulted in a trip to the intensive care unit. | Continue reading
The rigid structures of language we once clung to with certainty are cracking. | Continue reading
The largest survey of our universe ever conducted suggests that it closely matches the model most favored by cosmologists. It's unclear what this means for alternative theories attempting to explain bizarre discrepancies. | Continue reading
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U.S. health officials are investigating an outbreak of E. coli tied to now-recalled organic whole bagged carrots and baby carrots from Grimmway Farms. | Continue reading
A new JWST study has revealed the true origins of a luminous quasar that has been duplicated six times as its light "zig-zags" through space-time via a phenomenon first predicted by Albert Einstein. The unusual light show could help tackle one of cosmology's biggest problems, exp … | Continue reading
The mountain lions of Greater Los Angeles are becoming more active at night to cope with humans hiking, cycling and jogging in their habitat. | Continue reading
Stunningly preserved fossils of reptilian footprints and underbellies discovered last year in the Italian Alps have helped researchers unearth a tropical lakeside ecosystem that predates dinosaurs. | Continue reading
A low-pressure system will bring extreme gales and heavy rain to the West Coast over the next three days. | Continue reading
A small trial used designer CAR T cells to reboot the immune systems of patients with three autoimmune diseases, but it's still too early to say whether the treatment works in the long term. | Continue reading
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Current AI models struggle to solve research-level math problems. | Continue reading
By analyzing the resistance genes and proteins of E. coli, researchers can optimize treatments to address both current and future antimicrobial resistance. | Continue reading
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This 2023 satellite photo shows New Zealand's Mount Taranaki, which is surrounded by a near-perfect circle of deformed trees. The volcano was recently granted the same legal rights as a person. | Continue reading
While investigating a rare developmental disorder, researchers ended up discovering a spectrum of conditions that are all linked to one gene. | Continue reading
A low-pressure system headed for Northern California and Oregon is likely to bring extreme rain and strong winds. | Continue reading
Walmart has Amazon beat in this Sony A7 IV camera deal, and Black Friday is still weeks away. Save $650 on one of the best cameras for astrophotography. | Continue reading
An ancient inscription decorated with lions and sphinxes is finally deciphered, and it involves the "mother of the gods." | Continue reading
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A solitary dolphin in the Baltic Sea has been recorded talking to himself, leading researchers to wonder whether he's lonely and calling out for friends. | Continue reading
Decoding emergent languages in AI can have many benefits. | Continue reading
Researchers now think the boat was a local "føringsbåt" for passengers and cargo. | Continue reading
The Book of Kells is considered one of the finest surviving medieval manuscripts. | Continue reading
D-Wave says its new Advantage2 processor, which is designed for complex applications in AI, optimization and data science, is faster and more accurate than its existing 5,000-qubit system. | Continue reading