Human-driven climate change is slowing Earth’s rotation at a rate not seen in 3.6 million years
Human-driven climate change is slowing Earth’s rotation at a rate not seen in 3.6 million years, with sea level rise increasing the length of days...
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‘More advanced’ farming women married hunter-gatherer men in Europe thousands of years ago, ancient DNA reveals
When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that everything we thought we...
Scientists find 2 marsupial species, thought to have gone extinct 6,000 years ago, living in the forests of New Guinea
Two marsupial species that were thought to have gone extinct at least 6,000 years ago have been found on the island of New Guinea. The...
‘Cikai Korran came here and saw’: Visitors from India graffitied dozens of Egyptian tombs 2,000 years ago
Roughly 2,000 years ago, one visitor to Egypt’s Valley of the Kings graffitied his name — Cikai Korran — eight times in Old Tamil, an...
40 Years of Health Policy
The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly...
Climate disasters caused societal upheaval 3,000 years ago in China, study of ‘oracle bones’ hints
Abrupt population drops over 3,000 years ago in the waning years of China’s Shang dynasty were likely the result of a deadly increase in typhoons...
Prehistoric water-dwelling weirdo with sideways teeth and a twisted jaw was already a ‘living fossil’ 275 million years ago
Paleontologists have revealed a bizarre prehistoric creature with a twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth, and the water-dwelling weirdo was already a “living fossil” when it...
Stone Age woman was buried like a man, revealing flexible gender roles 7,000 years ago in Hungary
A typical male burial from the Stone Age cemetery of Csőszhalom in Hungary. He is buried on his right side, with a polished stone tool...
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...
Microsoft can now store data for 10,000 years on everyday glass thanks to laser breakthrough
Breakthrough improvements to Microsoft’s glass-based data-storage technology mean ordinary glassware, such as that used in cookware and oven doors, can store terabytes of data, with...