Articles of interest from across the scientific community.
Golden brown in Bronze Age Levant: The first known opium usage points to its significance in Canaanite end-of-life ceremonies …
Propaganda, not learning device: the Rosetta Stone was a notice declaring the greatness of Ptolemy V in words all could understand …
Noisy neighbors: Deep sea drilling can disturb noise-sensitive sealife up to 300 miles away …
The Sterkfontein fossils, integral to understanding early hominin evolution, may be one million years older than once thought …
To defeat locust swarms, first chart the insect’s genome. Not easy: just one desert locust chromosome equals an entire fruit fly genome …
Wildfires require land plants and an atmosphere with enough oxygen. The earliest convergence of these three was 430 million years ago …
Far from only affecting the respiratory system, particles of air pollution are now known to invade and harm the brain …
First mates: Some 600,000 years ago, early man found home in Kent, leaving behind stone tools, such as handaxes …
More firsts at CERN, as new exotic tetraquarks and pentaquarks are observed, leading some to dub our era “particle zoo 2.0” …
Gongs for mathematicians: The 2022 Fields Medal winners have been announced …
“I think that I shall never see / A graph more lovely than a tree,” wrote Radia Perlman in, of all places, her patent for stabilizing information traffic …
The cultivation of olive and fig trees some 7,000 years ago meant the intentional planning of a more complex and bountiful society …
A new mathematical model takes aim at the lithium battery’s nemesis: dendrite formation …
Recalling ribbits: Frog-eating bats prove that animals can have remarkably long-term memory for sounds associated with rewards …
A plastic-free future is possible with low-cost and biodegradable antimicrobial pullulan fiber packaging …
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