Planetary Sciences
Apr 24, 2024
Signs of 'spider' phenomenon on Mars
ESA's Mars Express has snapped the telltale traces of "spiders" scattered across the southern polar region of Mars.
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Evolution
Apr 17, 2024
How interspecies competition led to a 'bizarre' pattern in our own evolutionary tree
Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins—and produced a "bizarre" evolutionary pattern for the Homo lineage—according to a new University of Cambridge study that revises the start ...
Archaeology
Apr 11, 2024
Team finds evidence of commonly conducted ritualized human sacrifice across Europe in the Stone Age
A team of archaeologists affiliated with several institutions in France and one in Germany has found that ritualized human sacrifice was common across Europe during the Neolithic.
Archaeology
Apr 8, 2024
Carvings in southern Peru may have been inspired by people singing while hallucinating
A pair of archaeologists, one with Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, the other with the University of Warsaw, both in Poland, has found evidence suggesting that rock carvings found in a southern part of Peru may have ...
Archaeology
Mar 21, 2024
Plant material on obsidian blades on Rapa Nui suggests settlers there visited South America and returned
A team of archaeologists affiliated with several institutions in Chile reports evidence that early settlers on the island of Rapa Nui sailed to South America, interacted with people living there and then returned. In their ...
Archaeology
Feb 14, 2024
New evidence of independent written language on Easter Island before arrival of Europeans
A team of philologists, chemists, environmental physicists and engineers affiliated with several institutions across Europe has found evidence of an undeciphered script on wooden tablets created on Easter Island that represents ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 13, 2024
The world's spectacular animal migrations are dwindling. Fishing, fences and development are fast-tracking extinctions
In 1875, trillions of Rocky Mountain locusts gathered and began migrating across the western United States in search of food. The enormous swarm covered an area larger than California. Three decades later, these grasshoppers ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 6, 2024
Geoscientists find Pacific plate is scored by large undersea faults that are pulling it apart
A team of geoscientists from the University of Toronto is shedding new light on the century-old model of plate tectonics, which suggests the plates covering the ocean floors are rigid as they move across the Earth's mantle.
Archaeology
Jan 30, 2024
Study of ancient adornments suggests nine distinct cultures lived in Europe during the Paleolithic
A team of anthropologists at Université Bordeaux has found evidence of nine distinct cultures living in what is now Europe during the Gravettian period. In their study, reported in the journal Nature Human Behavior, the ...
Archaeology
Jan 3, 2024
New England stone walls deserve a science of their own
The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are every bit as iconic to the region as lobster pots, town greens, sap buckets and fall foliage. They seem to be everywhere—a latticework of dry, lichen-crusted stone ridges ...
