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The discovery that Neanderthals who lived 90,000 years ago in a seafront cave regularly caught and ate crabs challenges a long-standing theory. T.W. Plummer/Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project.

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The rover is traversing an area of Mars called the “sulfate-bearing unit” that researchers previously thought would only show evidence of mere trickles of water, as scientists believed the rocks there formed as the surface of the red planet was drying out.

Space.com

The NGC 2660 open cluster imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble Space Telescope captured hundreds of sparkling stars in an open cluster known as NGC 2660, which is located in …

Scientific American

“The six [previously known] planets with ring systems all have rings which are quite close to the surface of the planet. So this really challenges our ring formation theories,” study co-author Vik Dhillon, a professor of physics and astronomy at the …

Phys.Org

Stars are more than pretty glimmers in the night sky. They have shaped the mythology of every human civilization. They guide birds on their astonishing migratory journeys. And now we need to do our bit to prevent light pollution so stars can be part of our …

Nature.com

Paying due regard to the discontinuous nature of ball milling, we show that mechanochemical hydrogenation proceeds at significantly higher rate and disclose its connection with individual impacts. Experimental evidence suggests that the enhanced catalytic …

Space.com

A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 55 Starlink craft is scheduled to lift off Sunday at 12:10 a.m. EST (0510 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. But don’t get your hopes up; there’s just a 20% chance of good weather at launch time, SpaceX …

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

These programmable assemblies were shown to regulate bacterial plasmid expression and inheritance and modulate a protein circuit in mammalian cells. This approach lays the foundation for engineering designer condensates for synthetic biology applications.

CNN

The ability to solve problems with multiple tools is a rare talent in the animal kingdom, but according to new research, cockatoos are the first birds on the block to carry and use a tool kit to suit their needs. Using 10 Goffin’s cockatoos, …

Popular Mechanics

Scientists found an “extremely remote celestial body in a still young universe.” Due to the remoteness of the galaxy, it was hard to find, but the scientists used a technique called gravitational lensing to identify the galaxy’s main properties.