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Earliest Human Drug Use Ever Found Shows People in Indonesia Were Getting High on Betel Nut as Far Back as 25,000 Years Ago
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (302+ words) Researchers found evidence that Ice Age foragers were sucking psychoactive betel nuts 25,000 years ago....
Ancient DNA Reveals What Actually Happened to Ordinary People After the Western Roman Empire Fell
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (1287+ words) Ancient DNA suggests Rome’s fall reshaped Europe through gradual migration and intermarriage, not a sudden barbarian takeover....
If Your Windshield Seems Cleaner Than It Used to Be Scientists Say That Could Be a Very Bad Sign (For Insects)
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (513+ words) Insects are under threat partly because of man-made climate change, heatwaves and intensive farming. This summer you may have wondered why you are seeing so few insects squished on your car’s windscreen, compared to a road trip several years ago....
Could Yeast Help Build 3D-Printed Habitats on Mars? Scientists Are Testing the Recipe
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (546+ words) A yeast-based material turns Mars’s hostile environment into part of the construction process....
The First Denisovan Arm Bone Offers a New Clue to What These Ancient and Mysterious Humans Looked Like
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (750+ words) Home → Science → Anthropology New fossils, tools and butchered bones put an elusive human lineage into everyday life. The fossil is only about 4.5 centimeters long, a broken piece of the radius near the elbow. But for scientists trying to reconstruct the…...
Scientists Made Ice Stay Solid Above 2,000°C. The 'Superionic Ice' Could Be Found Inside Uranus and Neptune
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (620+ words) The researchers squeezed water to millions of atmospheres and discovered a bizarre new form of ice. Between the tips of two diamonds, researchers squeezed a speck of water until the pressure rose to millions of times that at Earth’s surface....
An AI Formalized and Verified Fermat’s Last Theorem in 11 Days, a Task Expected to Take Years
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (914+ words) Claude did not rediscover the proof. It made the existing one machine-checkable. Andrew Wiles spent seven years trying to solve a mathematical problem that had resisted everyone else for more than three centuries. When he finally announced a proof of…...
Scientists Keep Finding the Same Mysterious Beat Across the Animal Kingdom, From Fireflies to Sea Lions
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (724+ words) From fireflies to mammals, evolution may have tuned communication to the rhythm of neurons. Fireflies flash, crickets chirp, and sea lions bark. Three examples with signals so radically different that they seem to have little in common. Yet strip away…...
How Galileo Figured Out Nearly 400 Years Ago Why Human Giants from Folklore Could Never Actually Exist
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (245+ words) Without different anatomical proportions, a scaled-up body would collapse under its own weight....
Researchers Calculated What an Extreme Solar Storm Would Do to the US Power Grid and Economy the Numbers Are Staggering
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (211+ words) Home → Other → Economics Though less present in the public consciousness than hurricanes and wildfires, space weather represents a real and potentially significant threat to society. In 1967, a solar storm nearly triggered World War III by jamming early-warning radar systems in…...