Becky Ferreira
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Archaeologists Keep Unearthing Mysterious 'Giant' Prehistoric Hand Tools
"There's no evidence that people at this time had much bigger hands... which makes it hard to imagine how the tool could have been easily handled."
Scientists Raise Alarm Over Risk of 'Synchronized' Global Crop Failures
New research exposes an underestimated risk of simultaneous global food supply shocks due to climate change.
A Space Mission to Map the Structures Connecting the Universe and Solve Fundamental Mysteries Is About to Launch
“Euclid is really touching on the fundamentals of our physics," said project scientist René Laureijs.
Scientists Use AI to Discover 'Ghost Particles' From Our Own Galaxy In First
“We now have this new lens on our galaxy," said one scientist.
Scientists Glimpse Background ‘Hum’ of Spacetime In Major Breakthrough
“We can learn things that we wouldn't be able to even know were there before, in ways that we could never probe before," said one scientist.
These Deep-Sea Magnetic Bacteria Could Help Us Find Aliens
Strange bacteria that contain bullet-shaped magnetic crystals live in “a potential analogous habitat for extraterrestrial life,” a researcher said.
Human Relatives Were Butchering and Eating Each Other 1.45 Million Years Ago
Cut marks on an ancient shin bone are the earliest evidence that early human relatives defleshed each others’ corpses, and likely feasted on the remains.
Scientists Plan to Measure Distorted Time in Deep Space to Probe Reality
Pockets of warped time in distant galaxies could shed light on dark energy, dark matter, and the existence of an undiscovered “fifth force.”
Archaeologists Discover World's Oldest Neanderthal Cave Engravings
The mysterious 57,000-year-old designs open up a new window into the lives and culture of our ancestors.
Scientists Are Hunting for Alien Objects in the Ocean, And They've Just Found Something
A team including Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb may have just found a trace of an interstellar object, which Loeb believes could be alien in origin.
Fighters in Violent Medieval Class War Used Penis Stone to Sharpen Swords, Archaeologists Say
A roughly 6-inch penis stone was used to sharpen weapons at the site of a violent peasant uprising that occurred 500 years ago in Spain.
Scientists Discover 'Anomalies' Deep Under the Surface of Mars
The newest results from NASA’s InSight mission suggest that Mars has a fully liquid core, as well as weird anomalies in its mantle.