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Genetic Analysis Solves Human-Neanderthal Interbreeding Puzzle
Human history more than matches the best soap operas and Hollywood thrillers. The latest blockbuster is a tale of...
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Shark-Tooth Weapons Reveal Lost Biodiversity
For centuries, the people of the Gilbert Islands in the central Pacific Ocean have crafted weapons from shark teeth....
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Mars’ Plate Tectonics May Make Life More Likely
As it turns out, Mars and Earth may be more similar than previously thought in one momentous way: Mars...
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A Week on Mars: Curiosity Rover Settles in for Long Martian Haul
After a full week on the Red Planet, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is celebrating with a little rest and...
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Flag Fen Hosts ‘Crowdsourced’ Bronze Age Archaeology Dig
A first-of-its-kind “crowdsourced and crowdfunded” archaeological dig at Cambridgeshire’s Flag Fen has finished. It is the site of a...
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Neolithic Man: The First lumberjack?
During the Neolithic Age (approximately 10000 BCE), early man evolved from hunter-gatherer to farmer and agriculturalist, living in larger,...
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What Makes a Monster Star?
In 2010, observers reported the most massive stars ever seen, exceeding what many astronomers thought was a ceiling around...
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Evidence Suggests Quasicrystals Have Extra-Terrestrial Origins
Results from an expedition to far eastern Russia that set out to find the origin of naturally occurring quasicrystals...
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Scientists ‘Spot’ Dark Matter Near the Sun
An international team of researchers have developed a new technique to measure dark matter, using a state-of-the-art simulation of...
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World Depleting Underground Water Reserves for Agriculture
The world is depleting underground water reserves faster than they can be replenished due to over-exploitation, according to scientists...