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Neolithic Vegetarians: Learn About the Wooden Tools Used by Early Humans!
When you think of the Stone Age, scenes of Neanderthals chasing down great beasts of old for food and furs might come to mind. Many studies have shown the invention and development of stone tools were essential to early humans’ efforts to hunt animals, but according ...
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The First Musical Instrument
The ancient archeological record is littered with tools and weapons, means of survival in the pal...
A New Theory of Humanity's Origins
Despite popular depictions, humanity likely didn't originate out of one population. (Source: Warn...
There’s Another Way to Count
Addition isn't the only way to count numbers.
Here’s a simple question: what number is halfway be...
Why is This Debunked Evolutionary Theory so Persistent?
The AAH suggests our ancestors were once partially aquatic. (Source: Renato Bender)
About five mi...
Revisiting the Black Sea Deluge Hypothesis
Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat by Simon de Myle.
Across many of the world’s religions, a story crops ...
A New Origin for Dragon Folklore?
An Edo period painting of a dragon from Japan.
At the bedrock of folklore studies is one underlyi...
Why Do Astronauts Live So Long?
Apollo 11's Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, pictured in 2017 for the 48th anniversary of the moo...
The Ocean Below Our Feet
The deep mantle diamond (Credit: Tingting Gu)Early science fiction narratives are replete with jo...
5 Tips for Hunting Meteorites
A recent meteor seen as a fireball over the English Channel. (Source: ABC)
2023 has already been ...
Can You Solve This Bioethics Dilemma?
A bust of Hippocrates, who the Hippocratic oath is ascribed to. (Source: Getty)
You’re working i...
The Secrets of an Empire Hiding in a Tree
The ruins of Hattusa, the Hittite capital city. (Source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Written records...
The Kingdom Inside a Mummy
The Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, a part of the same complex as the embalming workshop. (Source:...
Humans and Dolphins Make a Great Fishing Team
A bottlenose dolphin, similar to the ones that aid fishermen in Brazil. (Source: Australian Geog...
Is a "Shadow Biosphere" Hiding on our Planet?
A tardigrade, a microscopic animal. If a shadow biosphere exists, it would be at this miniscule l...
Earth's Core is Slowing Down, But Don't Worry!
A visualization of the Earth's magnetic field, generated by the iron inner core. (Source: NASA)
3...
Talking With Apes
A bonobo, one of the types of apes whose gestures humans can intuitively understand. (Source: San...
The Broom Method
A NASA worker demonstrating the broom method of detecting a hydrogen flame, which are invisible d...
Ozone Layer on the Upswing
A visualization of the ozone layer hole as it stood in 1985. (Source: NASA)
Ten miles above the E...
A New Exoplanet on the Scene
An artist's rendering of LHS 475 b. (Source: The European Space Agency)
The James Webb Space Tele...
The "Sea Peoples" and Bronze Age Propaganda
Ramesses III's mortuary temple that in part depicts his battle with the Sea Peoples. (Source: Na...
Fictious Roman Emperor Proven to be Real
Ruins from Roman Dacia, where Sponsianus ruled. (Source: Romania Insider)
The historical record ...
Monkey Skeleton Sheds Light on Ancient Civilization
A group of spider monkeys. (Source: Auckland Zoo)
The skeletal remains of a spider monkey found ...
A New Explanation for the T-Rex's Stubby Arms
Sue the Tyrannosaurus rex, sporting the dinosaur's tiny arms. (Source: Field Museum of Natural H...
A Religion for Radiation
A cooling tower at a nuclear power plant. Plants like these produce nuclear waste that can poten...
Successful Nuclear Fusion Achieved
The target chamber at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. (Source: LLNL)
Scientists worki...
Artemis I Returns From the Moon
The Orion capsule after completing splashdown. (Source: NASA)
Humans are one step closer to retur...
Piece of the Space Shuttle Challenger Found
Some of the Space Shuttle Challenger crew (source: NASA)
Divers working on a History Channel docu...
A Dinosaur with Golden Bones?
An artistic rendering of an Iguanodon.
If you’ve ever seen a dinosaur’s skeleton in a natural hi...
London's Ghost Club Obsession
An illustration from Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol, inspired by the Spiritualist movement.
Do ...
A Trial of the Dead
Jean-Paul Laurens, Le Pape Formose et Étienne VI ("Pope Formosus and Stephen VI"), 1870Criminal t...
NASA's Dart Makes Impact!
All around our solar system, millions of asteroids orbit the sun along with the planets. Most are...
Which Ended First... The Dinosaur or the Egg?
We often imagine the end of the dinosaurs as a violent cataclysm limited to one fateful day; near...
Earth's Days are Getting Longer
A multiple exposure photo of the 2017 solar eclipse over Redmond, Oregon
How long is a day on Ea...
How Did Saturn Get its Rings?
The exact origins of Saturn’s rings have long troubled astronomers, with two main competing theor...
Listening In On Aliens
It's time to get far out — NASA has recently approved funding for its new program CATS, or Catego...
New Discoveries on Mars!
Earlier this year, we talked about how the Mars Perseverance rover was searching the Jezero crate...
