Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey have unearthed a remarkable set of 11,500-year-old…
In the floodplains of southern Patagonia around 70 million years ago, a large predator lurked. Armed with strong jaws and sharp, serrated teeth — perfect for piercing and slicing through flesh — the creature snapped and subdued its prey.
This…
Personality traits, such as psychopathy and narcissism are replacing the old notion of ‘evil’.
It’s hard to think of acts more despicable than the brutal attacks, kidnappings, rapes and murders carried out by the psychopath Ted Bundy, for…
The verifiably oldest ever person in the world is Jeanne Louise Calment, who lived to the age of 122 years and 164 days old.
It’s incredible to imagine what Calment and today’s supercentenarians (people who are 110 years old or older) have…
Far beneath the waves, down in the depths of the Japan Trench — seven kilometres below sea…
A skull that was found embedded in a cave wall in Greece more than 60 years ago may finally have an identification.
A new dating of the minerals that surrounded and grew over the mysterious Petralona skull places its age at 277,000 years at…
In March 2025, astronomers detected the brightest burst of radio light yet – and identified exactly where it came from.
In a world first, researchers pinpointed the site of a non-repeating fast radio burst (FRB) with impressive accuracy,…
Humans have always chased speed – from race cars to rockets – but nowhere is the thrill of going faster more extreme than in the world of fighter jets. Built for power, agility and raw velocity, these machines push the limits of engineering…
Scientists have deciphered the genome of the bacterium behind the world’s first recorded
Given these and other recent milestones, Peng says it’s realistic to think that at least one BCI system could gain approval in China by 2027.
Minmin Luo, director of the Chinese Institute for Brain Research (CIBR) in Beijing, agrees that the…