Articles of interest from across the scientific community.
A pendant carved from a wooly mammoth’s tusk has been dated at forty-one millennia old, and might be Eurasia’s oldest surviving jewelry …
Less birds and bees, more xenobots and copies: Self-replicating AI-designed organisms are redefining what it means to biologically reproduce …
Species-specific karaoke: Whales sing songs not as a show of talent to woo potential mates, but to search for conspecifics …
We men are wretched things. Yet beauty still flows through us, as evidenced by a magnificent Roman mosaic depicting The Iliad, uncovered on a UK farm …
Animal dung burned three millennia ago at a pastoral encampment has led to soil significantly healthier than that in non-inhabited patches …
Another milestone for quantum computers: IBM’s newest chip is first to pack over 100 qubits. But are we any closer to a practical quantum device? …
An anti-apocalypse slingshot is to be tested on an unsuspecting asteroid 11 million kilometers from Earth, in a groundbreaking trial run …
Tick-tock. The bell tolls for thee, Lyme disease. Trials show that a new mRNA vaccine works against the infection in guinea pigs …
If it’s gold you seek, then better off being at a merging of neutron stars than at a collision of black holes. Although neither sound ideal …
Researchers are developing a technique to draw water from thin air. It could provide off-grid communities with clean drinking water …
What happened in Wuhan in December 2019? A new study pieces together the earliest cases, zoning in on the now infamous Huanan Market …
The skull of an infant Homo naledi has been found in the Rising Star Cave, but none of the rest of the skeleton. Evidence of funeral rites? Or just the winds of time? …
DNA sourced from a lock of Sitting Bull’s hair using a novel testing technique has confirmed the resistance leader’s living ancestry …
Not much separates the worker ant from royalty in the Harpegnathos saltator species. Just a single protein regulates the behavior necessary for the caste system …
Threats to the safety of nuclear power stations are plenty. But who would have guessed the humble jellyfish to be the provenance of such significant menace? …
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