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Bir Tawil: The World's Only Unclaimed Habitable Land Is a Battleground for Gold Miners, Tribes, and Fake Kings
2+ hour, 37+ min ago (419+ words) Bir Tawil is one of the weirdest regions on Earth....
Scientists Just Reconstructed the 3. 6-Million-Year-Old Skull of 'Little Foot', One of Our Oldest Relatives
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (523+ words) Home " Science " Anthropology A crushed skull was impossible to fix until researchers used high tech X-rays to rebuild it. Scientists have finally revealed the face of "Little Foot," a remarkably preserved early human ancestor who lived about 3. 67 million years ago....
Some penguins commit suicide, walking away from the sea, alone, towards their demise
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (369+ words) Home " Features " Natural Sciences " Animals " Birds The "Nihilist Penguin" brought to attention one of nature's most haunting behaviors. Penguins are tough. They survive some of the most brutal conditions on Earth with a mix of social grit and stubbornness. They…...
AI and Other High-Tech Tools Are Reshaping the Global Fight Against Wildlife Poaching
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (451+ words) New tools are helping park rangers detect and respond to poaching in real time. As anti-poaching techniques have improved over the years, poachers have increasingly used technology to evade detection by patrols and park rangers. Now, conservationists are rising to…...
Oldest Chemical Evidence of Life on Earth Found Inside 3. 3 Billion Year Old Rocks
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (276+ words) Using AI and advanced chemistry, scientists uncovered 3. 3-billion-year-old chemical traces that mark the earliest evidence of life on Earth. The new findings essentially double the window of time that organic molecules preserved in rocks can offer useful information about early…...
A Diamond Found in Botswana May Be the Rarest of Its Kind Found to Date
6+ mon, 1+ day ago (552+ words) Scientists say the pink-and-clear diamond likely formed in two separate geological events. Many a special diamond has been unearthed in Botswana, but this one is something else. A diamond split cleanly in two'one half a soft pink, the other perfectly…...
We Are Just Waiting to Die: Mining Activists Targeted as South Africa Delays Energy Transition
6+ mon, 6+ day ago (425+ words) At a Johannesburg hearing, activists said South Africa's coal and iron mining industries are using violence and intimidation to silence communities resisting land grabs. Environmental justice activists have spoken out against coal and iron mining in South Africa, telling a…...
The Rhino Has Survived For Millions Of Years But Poaching And Climate Change Are Pushing It To The Brink
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (415+ words) [The Rhino Has Survived For Millions Of Years But Poaching And Climate Change Are Pushing It To The Brink]From Africa's savannas to Asia's forests, rhinos are vanishing fast. The Rhino Has Survived For Millions Of Years But Poaching And…...
Ancient Teeth in Ethiopia Reveal Early Humans Lived Alongside a Mystery Species Nearly 2. 8 Million Years Ago
8+ mon, 1+ day ago (758+ words) Ancient teeth are rewriting the story of our evolution. Many people picture human evolution as a straight line'an ape slowly standing taller, becoming Neanderthal, and finally evolving into modern humans. That's just wrong, and newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia may…...
Elon Musk says he wants to "fix" Grok after the AI disagrees with him
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (713+ words) Grok exposed inconvenient facts. Now Musk says he's "fixing" his AI to obey him. Mega billionare, former First Buddy, and bullshitter extraordinaire Elon Musk desperately wants AI to agree with him. After seemingly forcing Grok, the AI chatbot behind X,…...