Finds in a Spanish cave inspire an artistic take on warm-weather Neandertals
Here’s a scene guaranteed to melt the popular stereotype of Ice Age Neandertals as spear-wielding mammoth hunters confined to Eurasia’s frigid inner core. New...
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A year after Australia’s wildfires, extinction threatens hundreds of species
When Isabel Hyman heads out in coming weeks to the wilds of northern New South Wales, she’s worried about what she won’t find. Fifteen...
People fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can socialize without masks, CDC says
As the pace of coronavirus vaccinations picks up, normal life is looking tantalizingly in reach. Nearly a year after the World Health Organization declared...
A sea slug’s detached head can crawl around and grow a whole new body
Losing your body from the neck down can be just another one of life’s annoying, but temporary, setbacks — at least for two kinds...
Delve into the history of the fight for Earth’s endangered creatures
Beloved BeastsMichelle NijhuisW.W. Norton & Co., $27.95 On October 29, 1929, a date best remembered for the infamous Black Tuesday stock market crash, socialite...
A magnetic trap captures elusive ultracold plasma
In terms of difficulty, trapping a plasma is right up there with catching a cloud and pinning it down, or holding a moonbeam in...
To understand how ‘night-shining’ clouds form, scientists made one themselves
NASA’s Super Soaker mission was basically an extreme DIY project: To better understand how noctilucent, or night-shining clouds form, researchers made one from scratch....
Andromeda’s and the Milky Way’s black holes will collide. Here’s how it may play out
The supermassive black holes at the centers of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are doomed to engulf each other in an ill-fated cosmological...
COVID-19 has exacerbated a troubling U.S. health trend: premature deaths
There is no good time for a pandemic, but COVID-19 hit the United States as a public health crisis was well under way. The...
Most pro athletes who got COVID-19 didn’t develop heart inflammation
Most professional athletes who got COVID-19 didn’t suffer heart damage from it, a new study suggests. Researchers screened 789 players who had tested positive...
A choir of katydid ancestors filled the Jurassic rainforest with song 
FAO and the Global South: Advancing Agrifood Transformation through South-South and Triangular Cooperation 
DURBAN CONFERENCE, 25 YEARS ON – Paul Divakar Namala: “Solidarity and Resistance Work in the Long Run” 
Innocent-looking AI reasoning can make bad behavior harder to catch