Lady of Elche: A 2,400-year-old bust of a mysterious ‘highborn’ woman from pre-Roman Spain
QUICK FACTS Name: Lady of Elche What it is: A limestone bust Where it is from: Elche, Spain When it was made: Circa 400 to...
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Pain lasts longer in women, and immune cells may the culprit
Pain is something most people experience after an injury, whether from a sprained ankle, surgery or car accident. Normally pain fades as the body heals....
Ancient Greek mystery cult priestesses may have chemically tweaked fungus to induce psychedelic hallucinations
Priestesses of a mysterious cult in ancient Greece and Rome may have used a highly toxic fungus to create psychedelic hallucinations during their rituals, a...
‘Equinox effect’ could supercharge auroras this March
This month could be the best time to spot the northern lights for nearly a decade, as the combination of the “equinox effect” and supercharged...
NASA telescope spots first alien ‘astrosphere’ around a sun-like star: Space photo of the week
quick facts What it is: HD 61005, a sun-like star nicknamed the “Moth” Where it is: About 117 light-years away in the constellation Puppis When...
Do you weigh more when an elevator goes up or when it comes down?
Elevators have a strange way of messing with your sense of gravity. The moment an elevator lurches upward, you feel it in your feet. For...
Giant string of organic molecules on Mars may be one of the best signs of life yet
Organic molecules discovered within a stone on Mars cannot be fully explained by nonbiological processes, and it’s “reasonable to hypothesize” that living things could have...
‘We’re starting to find a lot more weirdness’: These strange animals can control their body heat
In 1774, British physician-scientist Charles Blagden received an unusual invitation from a fellow physician: to spend time in a small room that was hotter, he...
Paleolithic humans invented an ‘early predecessor to writing’ at least 40,000 years ago, carved signs suggest
Humans first developed complex and information-dense writing around 3000 B.C., when the Sumerians of southern Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) invented cuneiform scripts. But new research suggests...
Science news this week: ‘Spiderwebs’ on Mars, tigers’ return to Kazakhstan, and 2,000-year-old skull with permanently blackened teeth
Science news this week was filled with stunning space discoveries, with the largest map of the chaotic gas clouds at the center of the Milky...