AI-generated illustration. Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. Human evolution has often been depicted as a process of adaptation, where natural selection and genetic changes drive species toward better-suited traits for survival in their environments. But this long-held view may be missing a major force in human evolution: culture. A new theory is shaking up that conventional wisdom, suggesting that our evolution is …
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A Bridge Of Lost Stars Betrays Two Giant Galaxies In The Midst Of Destruction
Astronomers have captured the first optical evidence of a million-light-year-long bridge of stars being torn from one massive galaxy and pulled into another, a rare galactic interaction occurring in the Abell 3667 galaxy cluster, located about 700 million light-years from Earth. The discovery, published August 5 in The Astrophysical Journal, reveals a dramatic cosmic merger between two galaxy clusters, each …
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