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As most people who have used adaptive cruise control in traffic can no doubt appreciate, the most common event that required intervention was a car ahead cutting into the driver’s lane. These occurred about once every 8.6 miles, or 24.4 minutes, with 90 percent requiring intervention by the driver. Inadequate lane centering was the next most common event, occurring once …

Skull of a female A africanus – credit, Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, From Ethiopia comes an incredible discovery—early humans seem to have potentially lived alongside the very apes they evolved from. The discovery centers around teeth: that of a member of the genus Homo, of which we are a part, found next to the tooth of Australopithecus, the last in …

Genetic mutation in key enzyme may explain why humans survived while Neanderthals went extinct  Archaeology News Online MagazineView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

A protein that helps synthesize DNA is different in modern humans than it is in Neanderthals and Denisovans — our closest extinct relatives — and new experiments in mice genetically modified to express the modern human version hint that this may have made us behave differently. That discovery, in turn, could shed light on why Neanderthals and Denisovans vanished, researchers …

If humans ever leave Earth to colonize other planets, they will need companions that are incredibly resilient and able to shrug off the lethal conditions found in outer space. Tiny animals called tardigrades, only visible under magnification, are perfect for the job. At about 0.004 inches long, a tardigrade can nap through a blast of ionizing radiation strong enough to …

A team of Japanese astronomers have spotted an explosion in deep space that is not only influencing the very star that triggered it, but also distorting the planet-forming disk surrounding it. The discovery suggests that if such explosive events are commonplace in young star systems, newborn stars and any planets that form around them may exist in environments far more …

Utah’s first human case of West Nile virus for 2025 has been found in Salt Lake County. The infected individual was hospitalized with a severe form but is now recovering at home. Three Salt Lake County mosquito abatement districts have tested positive for the disease. The Salt Lake County Health Department on Thursday announced Utah’s first human case of West …

Researchers think that members of the most recently identified “hominin” group (the Denisovans) mixed with early modern humans and passed along parts of their DNA. Evidence points to several separate interbreeding events, each leaving a genetic imprint that influenced the course of human history. In 2010, scientists released the first draft of the Neanderthal genome. Comparing it with modern human …

This website is for humans  Hacker News Source link

Calum Watson BBC Scotland News Getty Images Scientists in Edinburgh discovered that feline dementia could share many factors with Alzheimer’s in humans Cats develop dementia in a similar way to humans with Alzheimer’s disease, leading to hopes of a breakthrough in research, according to scientists. Experts at the University of Edinburgh carried out a post-mortem brain examination on 25 cats …