Culture
Neanderthals Hunted Straight-tusked Elephants 125,000 years ago, New Study Suggest
Professor Gaudzinski-Windheuser standing next to a life-size reconstruction of an adult male European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquu…
Sci-Tech
Can the Present Affect the Past?
In 2022, the physics Nobel prize was awarded for experimental work showing that the quantum world must break some of our fundamental intuitions about…
Sci-Tech
Scientists have unveiled the first complete map of an insect's brain
The comprehensive map, called a connectome, took 12 years of meticulous work to construct, and shows the location of all 3,016 neurons in the brain o…
Sci-Tech
Astronomers Spotted Galaxy-scale Shock Waves in the Cosmic Web for the First Time
For the first time, astronomers have spotted enormous, galaxy-scale shock waves rattling the "cosmic web" that connects nearly all known …
Culture
Cosmic-ray Muon Uncover Hidden Chambers and Passages in Khufu's Pyramid
The Khufu Pyramid, a colossal archaeological structure shrouded in enigma, ranks among the largest monuments globally. In 2016 and 2017, the ScanPy…
Sci-Tech
Photosynthesis May Rely on Quantum Mechanics for Near-Perfect Efficiency, New Study Suggests
Humans can't teleport or reside in multiple places at once — but the tiniest particles of matter can. These eerie quantum effects have tradition…
Sci-Tech
What if the Universe Had Two Beginnings? The Implications of a Dark Big Bang
The Big Bang may have not been alone. The appearance of all the particles and radiation in the universe may have been joined by another Big Bang t…
Culture
Archaeologists Discover Earliest Horseback Riders in 5,000-Year-Old Burial Mounds
Archaeologists accidentally discovered the world's earliest horseback riders while studying skeletons found beneath 5,000-year-old burial mounds …
Sci-Tech
Physicists Observe Molecules Forming Through Quantum Tunneling for the First Time
Quantum mechanics allows particles due to their quantum mechanical wave properties to break through the energetic barrier (wall) and a reaction occur…
Culture
Genetic study reveals previously unknown European lineage during the Ice Age
A previously unknown lineage of Europeans survived the coldest parts of the last ice age, only to vanish when Europe went through a warm spell start…
Economy
Oil prices rise slightly due to ample supply and hopes for higher demand
Oil prices settled up slightly on Wednesday as signs of ample supply, including growing U.S. crude inventories, offset growing hopes for higher deman…
Internet
This facial recognition website can turn anyone into a cop — or a stalker
Despite the controversy surrounding Polish-based facial recognition software PimEyes, an extensive test of the search engine shows that it has tro…
Health
'Brain-eating' Amoeba Case Found in Florida Potentially Linked to Tap Water, Experts Warns
A person in Charlotte County, Florida, was recently sickened by a single-celled organism that can cause a rare, "brain-eating infection," p…
Culture
This medieval Norse sea monster was actually a whale, scientists say
A sea creature mentioned in 13th-century Old Norse manuscripts, which historians thought was a kraken-like mythological monster, is actually a whal…
Culture
Egypt Released Stunning Photos of a Newly Discovered 52-foot-long 'Book of the Dead' Papyrus
Egyptian officials have released photos of an ancient scroll, the 52-foot-long (16 meters) Book of the Dead papyrus recently discovered in Saqqara . …
