Mysterious 300,000-year-old Greek cave skull was neither human nor Neanderthal, study finds
Researchers have dated the mysterious skull from Petralona Cave in Greece to 300,000 years ago and concluded that the fossil belonged to an ancient human
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James Webb telescope pinpoints origin of brightest flash of radio light ever detected
Astronomers using the James Webb telescope alongside Canada’s CHIME telescope have pinpointed the origin of one of the brightest blasts of radio energy ever detected
Earth’s early primates evolved in the cold — not the tropics
Fossil spore and pollen data reveal our early ancestors evolved in cold, dry environments, with some even colonizing Arctic regions.
NASA’s Webb telescope spotted a new moon orbiting Uranus
Like the Uranus’s other 28 moons, the newfound object spotted by JWST will be named after a William Shakespeare or Alexander Pope character.
Can fake faces make AI training more ethical?
Demographic bias gaps are closing in face recognition, but how training images are sourced is becoming the field’s biggest privacy fight.
‘We never had concrete proof’: Archaeologists discover Christian cross in Abu Dhabi, proving 1,400-year-old site was a monastery
The discovery of a Christian cross proves that eighth-century houses found in the United Arab Emirates were part of a monastery.
Abrupt changes taking place in Antarctica ‘will affect the world for generations to come’
From sea ice to ocean currents, Antarctica is now undergoing abrupt changes — and they are likely to significantly intensify in the future.
‘We know what to do; we just have to implement it.’: Pregnancy is deadlier in the US than in other wealthy countries. But we could fix that.
Cuts to Medicaid and legal confusion around patient care post-Roe v. Wade may prevent improvements in the maternal mortality rate.
Artificial light has essentially lengthened birds’ day
Millions of audio recordings of hundreds of bird species have revealed that artificial light is making the birds wake up earlier and go to bed
New study raises questions about effectiveness of wolf hunting as a tool to help ranchers
One of the goals of controversial wolf hunts in the Western U.S. is to help reduce the burden on ranchers, who lose livestock to wolves
The transitions of aging: How parents and adult children can adjust
As people age, they may be surprised to find that younger folks don’t understand what they’re going through, but adult children or caretakers can do
Cities by the Bay
California’s San Francisco Bay Area surrounded by the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, and their suburbs, is pictured from the International Space
Do Beautiful Birds Have an Evolutionary Advantage?
Birds are not merely descendants of dinosaurs — they are dinosaurs. For Yale evolutionary biologist and ornithologist Richard Prum, birds have been a lifelong passion
IBM and NASA create first-of-its-kind AI that can accurately predict violent solar flares
The new open-source AI model, Surya, is trained on nine years of satellite imagery data and can accurately predict the sun’s activity up to two