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The early Neolithic female was a hunter-gather
I know what he's doing, but it still works.
It's about time American lawmakers treat gun violence as the publich health crisis that it truly is.
You can starve on too much food.
Can the business of large journals benefit from the existence of smaller journals?
Understanding how these distinct viruses hinder each other could be useful to improve forecasting models that predict respiratory disease outbreaks and strategies for controlling disease spread.
The launch of the ESA’s CHEOPS satellite has been postponed as a result of a software error, reports the University of Bern.
A new mapped the surface of a pulsar, and it may cause astronomers to rewrite their textbooks.
An alliance of fossil fuel-loving countries (boasting the US, Russia, Australia, Brazil, and Saudi Arabia) stood against the world, fighting against real climate action.
Moths that employ chemical defenses aren't in a hurry to avoid predatory bats.
AI performance is doubling nearly every 3 months, a new report shows.
All in all, some 563 square kilometers (217 square miles) of forest were cut down in November.
The agreement could help to protect environmental leaders in Latin America.
Astronomers think that the Milky Way's supermassive black hole may have a companion -- and that could teach us more about how galaxies form and evolve.
Coalition of actors from the US rejects Trump's stand on climate change
The sodium cyanide bombs are deployed to kill livestock predators, but opponents claim that the traps are inhumane and have many unintended victims — including pets and endangered species. Arguments between farmers and environmentalists are nothing new. Finding the balance between protecting farmers and their work and ensuring environmental sustainability is always a challenging issue. […]
The material was inspired by the self-cleaning lotus leaf.
Hemp and coffee cell cultures will grow for 30 days in microgravity.
"We're probably all killing a lot of our best ideas early in the creative process without knowing it," says the author.
Years later, tortoises still remember what they were taught.
Both baleen and toothed whales grew as large as their food allowed.
Researchers in Australia analyzed certain genes associated with longevity to design a 'lifespan clock' for different extinct and living species.
The findings offer renewed hope of finding oxygen on alien worlds.
We thought microplastics were a big problem... but they're a huge one.
Rising CO2 is altering how forests recycle water.
A trough beneath Denman Glacier is the deepest continent point in the world, measuring more than 2 miles beneath sea level.
Indonesia may be the home of the oldest cave paintings of hunting bands found in the world. A new study reports on what appears to be a depiction of human-like figures hunting wild buffalo and pigs at the Leang Bulu’ Sipong 4 site in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. It was dated to be approximately 43,900-years old. […]
Art installation at UN climate summit recreates air quality of major cities
On current trends, Greenland ice melting will cause 100 million people to be flooded each year by 2100.
A new map of water ice trapped beneath Mars' surface could inform astronauts where they should land.
The solution is something most governments don't even want to hear.
Breeding cross-species hybrids could one day allow scientists to grow human organs in other animals.
Activists entered the plenary of negotiations at the climate talks but were soon kicked out by security.
The fossil might represent a transitional stage between foot-powered and tail-powered swimming in modern whales.
Backed by science: Swedish climate activist asked countries to raise climate ambition.
It's the first time that an autonomous vehicle delivered freight across two states.
This is an unmitigated catastrophe.
It's the oldest evidence of insects feeding on feathers.
The findings may prove to be revolutionary.
Swipe right on eugenics.
None of the most polluting countries is on track to meet the Paris Agreement goals
Human communication dynamics have changed substantially in the past few decades. It wasn’t long ago that if you wanted to talk to someone, you needed to be physically next to them. But phones became commonplace in the 20th century, and nowadays, we always have smartphones on us, we talk through the internet, we communicate via […]
Although the practice was criminalized in 2018, the law is rarely imposed and as a result, women are still forced to sleep outside or in ‘special’ huts during their menstruation. It’s almost 2020, we’ve sent people on the moon, robots on Mars, we’ve spread on the globe far and wide, and yet we still don’t […]
"As we see more warm winters off the New England coast, fewer fishermen stay in business," the authors say.
The insight could be use to design indoor lights that synchronize with day-night cycles better or even improve mood.
"It's not very often that we're challenging ideas that are almost two hundred years old," says the team.
Although they are not able to conceive anymore, orca grandmothers boost the survival of their grand-offspring. Could this explain menopause?
Don't believe everything you think
Economies of scale and improved manufacturing methods are driving high energy storage prices down -- and fast!
There are about 700 ocean sites with low levels of oxygen, an IUCN report presented at COP25 reported.
