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Scientists Are Tracking a New Kind of Heat Wave Called "Snow Eaters" That Can Make Mountain Snow Vanish Twice as Fast
58+ min ago (21+ words) Unseasonably warm weather that rapidly melts snowpack is becoming more widespread in the U.S. West and happening earlier in the year....
A Quantum Microscope Can Show Us How Neanderthals Tended Their Fires
2+ week, 6+ day ago (609+ words) Diamond sensors reveal processes from long ago. The last flames kindled by Neanderthals died tens of thousands of years ago. But fire leaves traces behind — not only charcoal and ash, but also tiny magnetic changes locked inside minerals. Researchers have…...
Humans May Have Learned to Use Fire Nearly 800,000 Years Earlier Than We Thought, South African Cave Suggests
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (333+ words) Tiny burned bones in a South African cave hint at a much older relationship with fire....
Elon Musk's Space Empire Takes Him Across the Trillion-Dollar Line. Here Is What That Astronomical Fortune Means on Earth
2+ mon, 17+ hour ago (784+ words) Grasping a trillion-dollar wealth is almost unconceivable, but let's turn it into something perhaps more relatable. This milestone is more than a gawker’s statistic and marks a tipping point in the world economy, which is growing more unequal in almost…...
They're 80,000 Years Old and No One Knows Who Made Them. Are These the World's Oldest Arrowheads?
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (678+ words) Stone tips found in Uzbekistan could rewrite the history of bows and arrows. After our ancestors mastered the bow and arrow, this skill transformed hunting, survival, and eventually warfare. But who made it first? A new study suggests that the…...
Bir Tawil: The World’s Only Unclaimed Habitable Land Is a Battleground for Gold Miners, Tribes, and Fake Kings
3+ mon, 2+ week 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
4+ mon, 4+ 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
6+ mon, 3+ week 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
7+ mon, 4+ 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
8+ mon, 4+ 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…...