Europe’s earliest Homo sapiens seemed to have vanished without a genetic legacy — but genomic studies now show otherwise.
IBM’s NorthPole processor sidesteps need to access external memory, boosting computing power and saving energy.
A cell census provides information on the source of human brain specialization
The brain is composed of multiple regions associated with distinct functions, which have become further specialized in the human lineage. To define how this specialization is implemented, how it arises during development, and how it has emerged over the course of human evolution, a detailed understanding of the cells that make up the human brain is required.
Some whale populations are exhibiting unexpected cycles of boom and bust
The wastewater releas e from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is expected to have negligible effects on people and the ocean
In 2011, the east coast of Japan suffered an earthquake and tsunami that resulted in the meltdown of three of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. This led to an uncontrolled release of large amounts of radioactive material to the surrounding land and to the Pacific Ocean.
A debate about the age of ancient footprints continues
Dating the oldest evidence for the presence of Homo sapiens in the Americas is a matter of ongoing debate. One view is that the earliest such evidence is from 16,000 to 14,000 years ago, after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), when people would have crossed the Beringian strait from Siberia over a dry land bridge.
But will doctors embrace the grainier, lower-resolution images of the body’s insides?
Overlooked by the oil industry, natural hydrogen could power society for thousands of years
Giant tanks full of Atlantic salmon could help meet rising demand while lowering environmental impact
Genes reveal striking diversity within similar ice age cultures
Our capability to reconstruct past landscapes and the processes that shape them underpins our understanding of paleo-Earth. We take advantage of a global-scale landscape evolution model assimilating paleoelevation and paleoclimate reconstructions over the past 100 million years.
Studies seek clues to origins of farming, early languages
Artificial droughts sharply cut carbon storage
Airborne campaign to study summer cyclones could reveal air-ice interactions
H5N1 has continued to kill wild birds and poultry this summer. The fall migration could bring it back in force
Argus Array will combine hundreds of off-the-shelf telescopes to capture fleeting events
Tiny Caribbean crustaceans and their bioluminescent mating displays are shining new light on evolution
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