Archaeology 7 hours ago

Paleolithic human DNA reveals east-west connections across Ice Age Europe

More than 30,000 years ago, people associated with one of Europe's major Paleolithic cultures (the Gravettian) were more interconnected than previously thought. An international research team led by the University of Vienna ...

Evolution Oct 21, 2026

Ancient fish bones reveal how Arctic cod species survived the last ice age

The glacial Arctic Ocean was not a barren ice desert but a breeding ground for the evolution of cold adaptation in marine fish. This is the main conclusion of a new scientific publication from Stockholm University that examines ...

Ecology Oct 21, 2026

The ocean's most abundant 'loner' microbe has a sticky second life

The oxygen in about every other breath we take comes from microscopic cells—phytoplankton—drifting in the surface of the ocean. Among them is Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant photosynthetic organism in the ...

Social Sciences Oct 21, 2026

Forensic specialists need only one or two facial features to identify individuals

Researchers led by Carina Hahn at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S., have found that forensic specialists in facial identification need only one or two features, such as eyes or ears, to identify ...

Evolution Oct 21, 2026

Candida auris: A harbinger of further dangerous fungal species?

Why has the yeast Candida auris become a dangerous pathogen worldwide in just a few years? This question is on the minds of many researchers. Carla Schuh and Chaitanya Gokhale from the Biocentre at the University of Würzburg ...

Planetary Sciences Oct 19, 2026

Euclid discovers its first new comet 810 million miles from Earth

The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope has discovered its first previously unknown comet in images taken between Sept. 16 and 24, 2026.

Superconductivity Oct 20, 2026

'Smoking gun' may help solve mystery of high-temperature superconductivity

Superconductivity has many important practical applications, including creating powerful magnets used in high-resolution medical scans, transporting electricity efficiently and building ultrasensitive measuring devices. Until ...

Astronomy Oct 22, 2026

Webb image reveals young stars brewing in a nebulous cauldron

In this Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope, we visit a turbulent cauldron of star formation to see what is brewing inside dense clumps of gas. This is a star-forming region named LHA 120-N 159, ...

Social Sciences Oct 20, 2026

How the aftermath of negotiations turns 'winners' into 'losers,' and vice versa

At its best, negotiation is the art of mutual value creation. But once created, that value must be capitalized upon in the post-negotiation environment. That means the formal end of negotiations is often only the end of the ...

Earth Sciences Oct 20, 2026

Forgotten samples from Greenland's Cold War base reveal warmer summers during ancient ice-free period

The site of a former U.S. military base in Greenland was ice-free at a time when summers were a few degrees warmer than today, according to a new University at Buffalo–led study of ancient sediment recovered from beneath ...

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