Human bones showing damage attributed to possible chewing by other humans. Schulting et al. Antiquity, December 2024 Archeological discoveries can reveal the brighter sides of humanity. Collecting tchotchkes, our ancestors potentially comforting or sheltering one another in the face of a cataclysmic disaster, or building owl toys for children showContinue Reading
“Icy Repose.” Sue watched this Weddell seal from aboard a rigid inflatable boat in Neko Harbour of the Antarctic Peninsula. So as not to disturb its peaceful slumber, Sue used a long lens to record this serene portrait. Weddell seals’ large bodies are covered in a thick layer of blubber.Continue Reading
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This image of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument of the Perseverance rover on June 15, 2021, the 114th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS NASA is about to publish the world’s first off-world aircraft accident investigation. Aside from making history, the reportContinue Reading
Moxie relies on a cloud-based AI system which will go offline in the coming days. Credit: Moxie Children across the US will likely spend the coming days and weeks saying goodbye to an AI-powered friend named Moxie. The small dog-sized companion bot—which used a ChatGPT-style large language model and expressiveContinue Reading
Paleontologists in New Zealand have discovered a partial skeleton of platypterygiid ichthyosaur dating to the Cretaceous period. A pair of Platypterygius sp. Image credit: Dmitry Bogdanov / CC BY 3.0. “Ichthyosaurs were a clade of secondarily aquatic marine reptiles that inhabited the seas for much of the Mesozoic Era, firstContinue Reading
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 121, Issue 49, December 2024. SignificancePhotosynthesis is one of the few crop traits that has been largely unaddressed by plant breeding which can contribute to increasing crop yield potential. Exploiting genetic variation within organellar genomes presents a promising…Read MoreContinue Reading
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Using a three-foot machete, he cuts it with one effortless swoop. I dust off the excess mud and pop it in my mouth. Within seconds, my fingertips are stained fluorescent yellow, my taste buds gambolling with punches of pepper and earth.Continue Reading
The Memphis Police Department uses excessive force and discriminates against Black people, according to the findings of a U.S. Department of Justice investigation launched after the death of Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop in 2023. A report released Dec. 4 marked the conclusion of the investigation that began sixContinue Reading
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