Prehistoric people may have used light from fires to create dynamic art
Prehistoric people may have used firelight to create the illusion of movement in their art. An analysis of 50 engraved stones excavated in France...
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We finally have an image of the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way
There’s a new addition to astronomers’ portrait gallery of black holes. Astronomers announced May 12 that they have finally assembled an image of the...
Machine learning and gravity signals could rapidly detect big earthquakes
Massive earthquakes don’t just move the ground — they make speed-of-light adjustments to Earth’s gravitational field. Now, researchers have trained computers to identify these...
Here’s the latest good and bad news about COVID-19 drugs
Maybe you’ve heard that the pandemic is over in the United States. (It’s not.) Masks are no longer required in most places and large...
Eating meat is the Western norm. But norms can change
When my friend Julie Babulski was a freshman in high school in the mid-1990s, she decided to stop eating meat. “I loved animals. I...
Baby marmosets may practice their first distinctive cries in the womb
Cradled inside the hushed world of the womb, fetuses might be preparing to come out howling. In the same way newborn humans can cry...
Why it’s so hard for a one-hit wonder to have a lasting music career
It’s hard to predict which songs will become hits. It’s even more difficult to predict which artists topping today’s charts will go on to...
The sun’s searing radiation led to the shuffling of the solar system’s planets
In the solar system’s early years, the still-forming giant planets sidestepped, did a do-si-do and then swung one of their partners away from the...
These bats buzz like wasps and bees. The sound may deter hungry owls
Some bats buzz like wasps and bees when grasped, and the sound seems to deter predatory owls. The findings reveal what may be the...
How to wash chicken in the kitchen more safely, according to physics
Health experts recommend against washing chicken before cooking it because that can spread harmful bacteria. But if you’re among the nearly 70 percent of...
Estrogen therapy is linked to fewer signs of Alzheimer’s in the brain 
A vest tested on the Artemis I mission blocked some radiation exposure 
Frankenstein in Charge: Netanyahu Rejects Trump’s Gaza Plan 
Malawi Bets on Battery Storage to Climate-Proof Its Fragile Power Grid