A new study suggests that human women and Neanderthal men interbred much more frequently than previously thought, which rewrites part of the history of our origins
If you have ever taken a DNA test and seen a small slice labeled “Neanderthal,” you are looking at the leftovers of ancient encounters……
Xenobots made from frog cells are no longer just biological robots; they now also have something resembling a primitive nervous system, and that changes everything a little more
Scientists have created a new kind of living robot that can build a simple nervous system, then use it to move in more complex…..
Science
A new study suggests that human women and Neanderthal men interbred much more frequently than previously thought, which rewrites part of the history of our origins
If you have ever taken a DNA test and seen a small slice labeled “Neanderthal,”…..
Scientists want to build an instrument on the Moon capable of detecting black hole collisions, and the Moon’s near-total silence could be the key to the project’s success
What if the quietest place in the solar neighborhood became the best place to pick…..
Tardigrades have gone from being tiny, extremely rare creatures to becoming true guardians of the galaxy, in a story that combines extreme biology and planetary protection
Mars may look like a quiet desert planet, but new lab work suggests its dust…..
They froze a brain and then managed to reactivate its electrical activity—a phrase that sounds like science fiction, but is already becoming a central part of real scientific discourse
Scientists in Germany have shown that thin slices of adult mouse brain can be cooled…..
Scientists can’t believe it: an experimental drug helped mice with advanced Alzheimer’s disease regain their memory and ability to learn by restoring a key energy molecule in the brain
An experimental drug has restored memory and learning in mice that were already showing severe…..
An asteroid located about 300 million kilometers away contained the five basic letters of DNA and RNA, and the discovery once again calls into question the idea that life began only on Earth
Scientists analyzing sealed, contamination-free samples from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have found all five “canonical”…..
The Candida auris fungus is once again setting off alarms in hospitals across New York and New Jersey due to its drug resistance and the speed at which it can worsen the situation
Hospitals across the New York and New Jersey region are tightening routines around an unusually…..
Earth’s first major extinction event was worse than we thought and may have wiped out nearly 80% of species 550 million years ago
What did the first major extinction of animal life look like, back when complex creatures…..
An analysis of food remains found in pottery dating back 5,000 to 8,000 years is changing what we knew about prehistoric European cuisine
Ever scraped a burnt layer off the bottom of a pan and thought, “That’s the…..
Hubble captured a comet breaking apart in real time purely by chance, and the odds of seeing it happen at that exact moment were remarkably low
The Hubble Space Telescope, a joint mission between NASA and ESA, unexpectedly caught Comet C/2025…..
Mobility
Malaysia replaced streetlights with roads that glow in the dark, but this futuristic idea—which promised to revolutionize night driving—ended up running into a very down-to-earth problem
Malaysia’s glow-in-the-dark road markings grabbed attention in Selangor, but Parliament now says the experiment is likely ending……
More and more drivers are wrapping their car keys in aluminum foil, and the reason has a lot to do with silent thefts that can occur in a matter of seconds without breaking in
If you have ever dropped your car keys on the little table by the front door and…..
Energy
Economy
A zoo in the United States is building a $46 million African savanna, and the most striking feature isn’t the giraffes or the rhinos, but a hotel with a direct view of the habitat
Plans are taking shape for a major expansion at Wichita’s Sedgwick County Zoo that could…..
The 5,200 holes dug into a mountain in Peru are no longer a mystery, and the explanation changes what we knew about their ancient economy
For nearly a century, a strange band of thousands of holes carved into a Peruvian…..
It’s very rare to see so much gold in one place: gold bars and nearly 1,000 coins are being auctioned off in France, with a total value exceeding 2 million
In Angers, France, more than €2 million (roughly more than $2.3 million) in gold bars…..
It’s not about lithium or batteries: the problem driving up the cost of electric cars and wind power might lie in a tiny magnet, and a new AI has already found a way to do without rare earth elements
What if one of the biggest obstacles to cleaner cars and cheaper wind power is…..
What they have discovered in the Andes Mountains, between Argentina and Chile, is not just any mine, but a colossal deposit containing up to 84 billion pounds of copper, tens of millions of ounces of gold and silver, and a potential that is already revolutionizing the market
A copper, gold, and silver find in the Andes on the Argentina-Chile border is drawing…..
Russia intercepts a 2.8-ton fragment of the Aletai meteorite, valued at $4.2 million, which was being smuggled out of the country disguised as a simple garden ornament
Customs officers in Russia say they stopped a 2.8 ton chunk of the Aletai meteorite…..
Another theme park goes bankrupt and closes its doors “forever”: what has happened in recent weeks is more serious than it seems
Is Brean Theme Park really gone for good? Not exactly. The Somerset attraction entered liquidation…..
The battle for Panama’s ports is entering a new phase, and China has issued a stern warning
Most people will read this as another chapter in the power struggle around the Panama…..
Australia has just discovered the largest iron deposit ever recorded, weighing 5.7 billion tons, and the most impressive thing is not its size, but its age
This is not a story about a brand-new mountain of iron suddenly appearing in Australia……
A popular Alaska cruise line suddenly closes and cancels all future cruises, leaving reservations, refunds, and questions about what happened just before the season began up in the air
A cruise line known for taking travelers into quieter corners of Southeast Alaska has shut…..
Environment
Sea levels could rise 27 centimeters more than predicted and put an additional 132 million people in the danger zone by 2100, according to a new and alarming estimate
A new study suggests many coastal risk assessments have been starting from the wrong baseline……
It stands over 100 feet tall, is nearly 200 feet wide at the base, and may be older than many famous monuments; now NOAA believes that this Maug coral may hold clues to the future of reefs
NOAA researchers working in the Mariana Islands have measured a colossal stony coral inside the…..
Alaska wants to resume helicopter bear “trapping” across an area of nearly 40,000 square miles to save the caribou, but the courts could block the plan before May
Alaska is once again in the spotlight for a wildlife strategy that sounds harsh on…..
The new paradigm of drought on the Colorado River reveals that vegetation consumes groundwater when it is hotter, which could leave less flow for millions of people
When summer turns hot and dry in the Colorado River’s headwaters, plants do not always…..
A reward of up to $200,000 is being offered to anyone who proposes a solution to stop the spread of these invasive mussels in California before the problem worsens
Boaters pulling into Shasta Lake think the hassle is traffic or the price of gas……
Wild boars have been wreaking havoc on crops for years in what appears to be a random manner, but 9,871 reports of damage now reveal that their incursions follow a surprisingly predictable pattern
If you’ve ever walked a field at sunrise and found fresh furrows where neat rows…..
For the first time in global legal history, a country has recognized the legal rights of insects, and it is the stingless bees of the Peruvian Amazon that are taking the first step toward a new model of coexistence between nature and the law
In a remote corner of the Amazon rainforest, a tiny pollinator has just gained something…..
Forty-three years ago, a few ground squirrels were released into the area devastated by the eruption of Mount St. Helens, and now scientists believe they were the unexpected heroes of the ecosystem’s recovery
When Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980, it took lives and erased landscapes…..
