Light in Darkness: Experiment Recreates Paleolithic Cave Lighting
A recreation of three common types of Paleolithic lighting systems (torches, grease lamps, and fireplaces) illuminates how Paleolithic cave dwellers might have traveled, lived, and…
A recreation of three common types of Paleolithic lighting systems (torches, grease lamps, and fireplaces) illuminates how Paleolithic cave dwellers might have traveled, lived, and…
Mitochondrial DNA of archaic humans has been retrieved from cave sediments, but it has limited value for studying population relationships. Now, researchers present a method…
University of Rochester researchers describe first highly chirped pulses created by a using a spectral filter in a Kerr resonator. The 2018 Nobel Prize in…
Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say study findings suggest booster doses should be investigated for those who are immunocompromised. In a study published on June 15,…
Engineers impressed by the functional great diversity of hairs on spider legs. Just how do spiders walk straight up — and even upside-down across —…
How to Supply Emergency Power to Residents of Rural and Suburban Communities During Multi-Day Outages New research suggests that cooperative strategies for sharing emergency power…
What’s as long a basketball court, taller than a b-double, and has just stomped into the record books as Australia’s largest dinosaur? It’s time to…
New research demonstrates how stopping the spread of harmful content will require inter-platform action. Malicious COVID-19 online content — including racist content, disinformation, and misinformation…
New study and a review of decades of data pushes the memory clock back over a year, but the study confirms everyone is different. On…
The raucous calls of tree hyraxes — small, herbivorous mammals — reverberate through the night in the forests of West and Central Africa, but their…
Surprising finding challenges current theories on how galaxies grow. Three dozen dwarf galaxies far from each other had a simultaneous “baby boom” of new stars,…
Research from the University of Kent’s School of Anthropology and Conservation has discovered that one of the earliest stone tool cultures, known as the Acheulean,…
Plant diseases don’t stop at national borders and miles of oceans don’t prevent their spread, either. That’s why plant disease surveillance, improved detection systems, and…
120-million-year-old animals evolved ‘scratch digging’ traits independently. A joint research team led by Dr. Fangyuan Mao and Dr. Chi Zhang from the Institute of Vertebrate…
In a new study, an international team led by Sebastian Stumpf from the University of Vienna describes a fossil skeleton of an ancient shark, which…
A new study shows that several disagreements between Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt around Africa’s largest hydropower plant, the new Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), could…
In mathematics, simple equations can generate a complex evolution in time and intriguing patterns in space. One famous example of this is the Mandelbrot set,…
It is time to meet Australotitan cooperensis, a new species of giant sauropod from Eromanga in southwest Queensland. Australotitan, the “Southern Titan of the Cooper,” named after…