Inside every human brain lies a detailed map of the body, with different regions dedicated to different body parts – the hands, lips, feet and more. But what happens to this map when a body part is removed? For decades, scientists believed that when a body part is amputated, the brain’s body map dramatically reorganises itself, with neighbouring body parts …
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Neanderthals and Homo sapiens may have interbred 100,000 years earlier than once thought
Animal stories History uncovered Genetics Ancient creatures See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about three years later they found the remains of more than a …
Read More »U.S. economy grew 3.3% in Q2; growth was stronger than initially thought
A shopper holds Macy’s bags outside the company’s flagship store in the Herald Square neighborhood of New York, US, on Tuesday, July 15, 2025. Alan Chin | Bloomberg | Getty Images The U.S. economy grew at an even faster than thought pace in the second quarter as consumers and businesses held up against tariff volatility. Gross domestic product rose at …
Read More »The first stars may not have been as uniformly massive as we thought
Chemistry that cools clouds The first star-forming gas clouds, called protostellar clouds, were warm—roughly room temperature. Warm gas has internal pressure that pushes outward against the inward force of gravity trying to collapse the cloud. A hot air balloon stays inflated by the same principle. If the flame heating the air at the base of the balloon stops, the air …
Read More »Just when you thought things couldn’t get weirder – a rare black moon is rising this weekend – AOL.com
Just when you thought things couldn’t get weirder – a rare black moon is rising this weekend AOL.com What’s a black moon? Here’s what to expect this weekend CNN ‘Blood moon’ 2025: Will the Sept. 7 total lunar eclipse be visible from North America? Live Science There will be a ‘Black Moon’ this weekend in Portland. What does that mean? KGW What is a …
Read More »The Glaciers On Mars’ Surface Might Not Be What We Thought
Until recently, Mars was studied only through telescopes and some data that was recorded from early spacecraft. It was thought that Mars’ polar regions were the only significant reservoirs of ice, mainly in the form of frozen carbon dioxide (dry ice). The rest of Mars seemed too dry for frozen water to form, and there were no means to detect …
Read More »Kumail Nanjiani Thought ‘Eternals’ Would Lead To “10 Years” Of MCU Work
Nearly four years later, Kumail Nanjiani‘s MCU future doesn’t look bright after the critical and commercial flop that was Eternals (2021). The Oscar nominee, who previously underwent a major physical transformation for the part of Kingo, noted that he “signed on for six movies,” thinking the Chloé Zhao-helmed movie would lead to more work with Marvel. “It came out, it …
Read More »Jupiter’s core isn’t what we thought
The mystery at Jupiter’s heart has taken a fresh twist – as new research suggests a giant impact may not have been responsible for the formation of its core. It had been thought that a colossal collision with an early planet containing half of Jupiter’s core material could have mixed up the central region of the gas giant, enough to …
Read More »The Glaciers On Mars’ Surface Might Not Be What We Thought
buradaki/Shutterstock Until recently, Mars was studied only through telescopes and some data that was recorded from early spacecraft. It was thought that Mars’ polar regions were the only significant reservoirs of ice, mainly in the form of frozen carbon dioxide (dry ice). The rest of Mars seemed too dry for frozen water …
Read More »Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) Is Much Older Than We Thought
All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. A study suggests that this organism likely lived on Earth only 400 million years after its formation. Further analysis also shows that this life form likely sported an early immune system, which means it was probably fighting off viruses. Life on Earth had to …
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