Sensing our environment is one of the most important skills that define life. Registering temperatures around us is critical to adapting and protecting ourselves from harm, either from scorching heat or freezing cold.
The microscopic cold sensor…
Geometric marks carved into Paleolithic tools and figurines were not random decoration. A new computational analysis shows that Ice Age humans used these repeated sequences of dots, lines, and notches to encode information.
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For a bat to be at the top of its game for echolocation, it needs a good head on its shoulders. Not all bats, though, are the same when it comes to sensing their surroundings in total darkness — some bats emit sonar waves through the mouth,…
Less than a million years after Earth’s worst mass extinction, crocodile-like amphibians were already moving through coastal waters around the world. Fossils from Western Australia, originally thought to represent a single species, tell a…
Thousands of marks carved into Paleolithic artifacts suggest that early modern humans were using structured symbols to communicate as far back as 40,000 years ago, a detailed analysis has found.
The marks, made by people of the Aurignacian…
You might find the lemur mongoose in Madagascar and the raccoon in the deciduous forests of North America, but they have one important thing in common: both species spend a lot of time climbing trees.
The ability to climb up and down trees is more…
At the heart of most galaxies lies a supermassive black hole — a ginormous entity with a mass so large, it can outweigh millions, if not billions, of suns.
According to new research, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, these giants…
The US added a record-breaking amount of energy storage in 2025, according to a new solar industry report published Monday. The growth of battery storage across the US is a rare success story for clean energy during the renewables-hostile second…
An international team of archaeologists are trying to solve a macabre prehistoric mystery – a…
