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A new study published in L’Anthropologie is shedding light on a remarkable discovery from Skhul Cave in Israel. Researchers have reanalyzed the remains of a 140,000-year-old child, and the findings suggest that the child could have been a hybrid between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. This revelation challenges long-held assumptions about early human evolution and may provide new insights into the …

A remarkable image taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) offers a breathtaking view of three glaciers merging into one massive ice mass in the Karakoram mountain range. These glaciers, located in one of Earth’s most remote and contested regions, are gaining ice volume despite the warming temperatures that are threatening glaciers worldwide. A Rare Glacial Phenomenon …

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of the Giant Molecular Cloud. | Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF/NRAO/P.Vosteen Astronomers have discovered a vast cloud of gas and dust stretching out for a staggering 200 light-years and lurking in a poorly explored region of the Milky Way. The structure, named the Midpoint …

Most cosmologists agree that our universe had a beginning. But the finer details about the Big Bang remain a mystery. A history of everything would explain all, or so theoretical physicists hoped. In his final years, Stephen Hawking working with Thomas Hertog proposed a striking idea: The laws of physics were not precisely determined before the Big Bang; they evolved …

The biggest ever shark tagged in the Atlantic has been tracked swimming dangerously close to one of America’s top summer vacation spots. The 14-foot, 1,653-pound apex predator – nicknamed ‘Contender’ after the research vessels used by the organization – was recently detected off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, about 30 miles from Cape Cod and 100 miles south of Boston. …

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Summary: A new study reveals how evolution fine-tunes instinctive fear responses by tweaking a key neural switch deep in the brain. Comparing two deer-mouse species, researchers found that forest-dwelling mice have hypersensitive escape circuits, while open-field mice are more likely to freeze. This difference is traced to the dorsal periaqueductal gray (dPAG), a brain hub for defensive actions, which is …

If you saw this white and grayish blob sitting on a leaf, what would you think it was? If your first thought was “bird poop,” you’re actually not too far off. But if you look a little more closely, you might start to notice the “poop” looking almost … alive. That’s because it’s actually a caterpillar — a bird poop …

Tantalizing evidence hints that dark energy might be evolving, leading some cosmologists to suggest that our universe will collapse in a “Big Crunch” sooner than expected. Over the past year, massive surveys of galaxies by both the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) have revealed that dark energy — the mysterious force that’s accelerating the …

Standing around 10 feet tall, weighing around 220 pounds and with an axe-like beak capable of delivering devastating strikes, the terror bird would have proved a formidable foe for most creatures. But around 13 million years ago, one of them may have fallen prey to an even larger creature, a team of paleontologists in Colombia have discovered after examining bite …