We’ve had fire for longer than we thought
Archaeologists have unearthed new evidence that indicates hominids used fire up to 1.79 million years ago.
Category: Science
Some of the last surviving Neanderthals were remarkably diverse — suggesting inbreeding didn’t doom them
Some of the last surviving Neanderthals displayed greater genetic diversity than scientists previously thought, a new study of ancient DNA reveals, challenging the idea that
‘This is the next jump in technology’: World’s first sub-1nm chip keeps Moore’s Law alive a little longer
For the first time, scientists can develop computer chips with transistors smaller than 1 nanometer. The new “NanoStack” architecture that has made this possible could
60 million stars: Euclid space telescope snaps the most detailed photo of the Milky Way ever taken
A deep-space telescope on a grand mission to make the largest-ever 3D map of the universe just peered into the star-filled heart of the Milky
Scientists find thousands of earthquakes in a perfectly straight line in Alaska, revealing a hidden ‘microplate’
Thousands of previously undetected tiny earthquakes have revealed the edge of a miniature tectonic plate slamming into Alaska near the Denali Fault. The microplate could
NASA rover finds record-breaking trove of complex organic molecules on Mars
Researchers have found a new puzzle piece in Mars’ geological history that hints that the Red Planet may have once harbored life. New data from
‘You can’t patch your way out of it’: Cheap AI worm can spread between devices without human guidance — but how did scientists create it?
Researchers have demonstrated that a computer worm powered by artificial intelligence (AI) can autonomously spread across a network by identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities on different
‘A weird result from an already weird hominin’: Archaeologists discover all Homo naledi skeletons found in South African cave are female
For the first time, archaeologists have analyzed the genetic material of Homo naledi, a mysterious 300,000-year-old relative of modern humans discovered deep in a South
‘Unequivocal evidence’ of Earth’s oldest impact crater turns out to be off by half a billion years
Earth’s oldest known impact crater formed when a meteorite slammed into what is now Australia about 3 billion years ago — 470 million years later
‘These don’t occur naturally’: Radio signals linked to alien life may be passing Earth by undetected, new study hints
Humans have been searching the stars for alien radio signals for decades — and so far, E.T. has not phoned home. But that doesn’t mean
A Mars rover found organic carbon just sitting on a rock
The organic molecules could come from life or from ordinary chemistry — only samples returned to Earth can settle it.
Roman Telescope Comes to Kennedy
NASA’s Pegasus barge arrives at the Launch Complex 39 turn basin at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space
How Physicists Track and Trap the Elusive Neutrino
Seventy years ago, the physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines took a custom-built 10-ton detector, surrounded it with thick lead walls and wet sandbags, and
Satellites reveal Earth has a surprising symmetry in the way it reflects light — and it might be tied to the El Niño cycle
For half a century, scientists have known that Earth’s Northern and Southern hemispheres have almost the exact same albedo — the amount of sunlight they