Month Archives: September 2024

Ancient humans are said to have evolved to leave the trees, where our primate ancestors lived, in favour of open grassy savannahs – but we may have this idea wrong Source link...

Paul Ryding/Joseph Woodhouse Dinosaurs dominated the land for around 180 million years. Yet we have little idea what life was like for these prehistoric icons as interpreting fossils that are at least 65 million years old is fiendishly difficult. Finding...

Black garden ants take steps to stop diseases spreading through the colonyLeonid Serebrennikov / Alamy When ants have been exposed to a pathogen, they change the way they build their nests in order to reduce the risk of an epidemic....

September 10, 20244 min readPolaris Dawn Astronauts Launch on Daring Private MissionPolaris Dawn’s astronauts will travel farther from Earth than anyone since the early 1970s and will attempt the world's first private spacewalkBy Josh Dinner & SPACE.comRiding in a SpaceX...

September 10, 20245 min readKamala Harris’s Ascent Shows How Political Hardball—And Smart Polling—Pays OffSo far, enthusiasm for the Harris campaign has vindicated Democratic Party elites’ decision to push Joe Biden out of the race. Was this just a lucky guess...

The integration allows Venmo and PayPal users to transfer cryptocurrency using simple ENS names, replacing long wallet addresses. Source link...

In Camera review – a star is born in Nabhaan Rizwan About Little White Lies Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining...

Mew are breaking up. The Danish band will say farewell, and celebrate its 30th anniversary, with a pair of shows next year. See those tour dates, and statements from the band and frontman Jonas Bjerre, below.Singer Jonas Bjerre, drummer Silas...

A fascinating new study has potentially discovered a huge interbreeding zone for Neanderthals and Homo sapiens from the late Pleistocene (c.129,000 and c.11,700 years ago) who lived in parts of Southeast Europe and Southwest Asia. Narrowing down the list of...

Technicians prepare to install Europa Clipper’s 3-metre-wide antenna on the spacecraft on 17 June at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett After decades of dreaming of Jupiter’s moon Europa — and the vast ocean that probably...