Our ancestors are known to have gotten frisky with other, now-extinct species of humans, leaving traces in our DNA to this day. A new analysis has found that a certain genetic variant inherited from the Denisovans may have given modern…
A team of astronomers has found what appears to be a previously undiscovered moon orbiting Uranus. If confirmed, this finding would mean the gigantic blue-green ice planet would have 29 moons. The discovery was made using the James Webb Space…
Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously…
The number of whales and dolphins getting stranded on the Scottish coastline has increased at…
A new species of dinosaur has been discovered which had an “eye-catching sail” along its…
Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur which had an “eye-catching sail”…
Velociraptor has a new cousin, which may have been even more deadly. The new species has been named Shri rapax, and unlike its famous relative it appears to have brandished killer claws on its oversized hands.
The movies may have vastly…
When modern humans travelled from Asia to the Americas, traversing the Bering Strait for the first time, they were well prepared. That’s because these travelers brought along an adaptive variant in their genes — a genetic advantage that they…
Many millennia ago, the tides turned for ancient Sumerians who built the first civilization — literally. Rising in southern Mesopotamia around 6,000 years ago, Sumer bridged a network of city-states to become the cradle of civilization….
As the research team from Penn State and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyzed decades of deep-space communication logs, they found patterns in how we have beamed signals into the cosmos.
Their insights, published in Astrophysical Journal…
