Dark, finger‑like marks slide down countless Martian cliffs each year. These stripes have prompted decades of speculation about water still trickling across the Red Planet. A new analysis of 500,000 of these features shows that they form through avalanches of dry dust, report Valentin Tertius Bickel of the University of Bern and Adomas Valantinas of Brown University. Why the Martian …
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A discarded can tab, locked inside a new type of rock on England’s Cumbrian coast, tells a startling story about what happens when industry and nature collide. Geologists have confirmed that steel slag from old furnaces has fused into solid rock in only 35 years, overturning information from textbooks that marks rock formation in spans of geologic ages. How waste becomes …
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Katie Taylor said she was “very satisfied” after outboxing Amanda Serrano over 10 tactical rounds on Friday night to complete a clean sweep in one of boxing’s most storied rivalries and to finally put to rest any lingering questions over who was superior. “I think I made the fight a lot easier for myself tonight,” Taylor said. “I knew I …
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It seems impossible that Tim Cook’s legacy as Apple’s spectacularly successful CEO could be in jeopardy. But in recent months, and especially in recent days, the impossible has become at least conceivable. The latest tremors came when Apple announced chief operating officer Jeff Williams would retire by yearend after 27 years. Just a day before, the company’s top AI executive, …
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A groundbreaking discovery in southwestern Kenya has sent shockwaves through the world of archaeology. In the region near Lake Victoria, archaeologists have uncovered ancient stone tools that could rewrite the history of early human development. These tools, which could be up to 3 million years old, were found at a site near fossilized remains of Paranthropus, a distant human ancestor. …
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