60,000-year-old ochre in South Africa carries traces of antelope protein.
Eland collagen turned up in ochre-rich sediment at Klipdrift Shelter, so people may have mixed animal material into the pigment or left ochre-coated eland hides (Proceedings of the Royal Society B).
Eland collagen turned up in ochre-rich sediment at Klipdrift Shelter, so people may have mixed animal material into the pigment or left ochre-coated eland hides (Proceedings of the Royal Society B).
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Centuries of farming primed an Italian lake for a medieval tsunami.
Land use tripled the sediment feeding Lake Iseo's delta. Quakes in 1117 and 1222 collapsed it, and models put the 1117 wave's run-up near 50 m. The delta has since rebuilt (Nature Communications).
Land use tripled the sediment feeding Lake Iseo's delta. Quakes in 1117 and 1222 collapsed it, and models put the 1117 wave's run-up near 50 m. The delta has since rebuilt (Nature Communications).
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Batting practice, and Junior Caminero sends one all the way to the FOX Sports set.
That's not a warmup swing, that's a warning.
That's not a warmup swing, that's a warning.
Junior Caminero hit a baseball so far during batting practice that it smoked the FOX Sports set in the back of the stadium š³
Via: @FOXSports
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Salt crystals on Enceladus could hold sealed samples of its hidden ocean.
In a frozen Enceladus-like brine, X-ray imaging showed the salt natron trapping tiny pockets of the original fluid. Landers should target fresh plume deposits (Communications Earth & Environment).
In a frozen Enceladus-like brine, X-ray imaging showed the salt natron trapping tiny pockets of the original fluid. Landers should target fresh plume deposits (Communications Earth & Environment).
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A Thai vine fools fig wasps with a flower that smells like a fig.
Heterostemma ficoides shares 21 of 22 scent compounds with its fig. The wasps get nothing, but its main pollinator, a tiny fly, raises its larvae in the fallen flowers (New Phytologist).
Heterostemma ficoides shares 21 of 22 scent compounds with its fig. The wasps get nothing, but its main pollinator, a tiny fly, raises its larvae in the fallen flowers (New Phytologist).
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A venomous primate unrecorded by science since the 1930s keeps turning up in people's gardens.
A rescue center on Indonesia's Bangka Island took in over 90 Bangka slow lorises in 2015-2025, many from homes, roads or power lines, and released 86 (Spixiana).
A rescue center on Indonesia's Bangka Island took in over 90 Bangka slow lorises in 2015-2025, many from homes, roads or power lines, and released 86 (Spixiana).
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Some of China's first polished stone sickles may have been made for fiber, not grain.
Replicas of tools from the 8,000-year-old Peiligang site cut a wild grass barely better than stone flakes, but were 3.2 to 6.5 times more efficient on fiber plants like paper mulberry (PNAS).
Replicas of tools from the 8,000-year-old Peiligang site cut a wild grass barely better than stone flakes, but were 3.2 to 6.5 times more efficient on fiber plants like paper mulberry (PNAS).
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A rock from Papua New Guinea sank more than 90 km into Earth. Its heat history doesn't fit the models.
A Gƶttingen-led team found it was already about 700 degrees C at 45 km deep but only about 800 at 90 km, a pattern subduction models don't predict (Nature Geoscience).
A Gƶttingen-led team found it was already about 700 degrees C at 45 km deep but only about 800 at 90 km, a pattern subduction models don't predict (Nature Geoscience).
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Many tiny planet-forming disks have rings and gaps. They were just too small to see.
ALMA's sharpest view of 11 compact disks in the Lupus star-forming region found structure in 4 within 10 times the Earth-Sun distance of their stars (The Astrophysical Journal Letters).
ALMA's sharpest view of 11 compact disks in the Lupus star-forming region found structure in 4 within 10 times the Earth-Sun distance of their stars (The Astrophysical Journal Letters).
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A Bering Sea heat wave set off a boom in hybrid crabs.
After the 2018-19 heat wave crashed snow crabs, 2025 NOAA surveys found snow-Tanner hybrids at 13.4 times their 1988-2024 average, making up 41.7% of market-size snow and hybrid males (PNAS).
After the 2018-19 heat wave crashed snow crabs, 2025 NOAA surveys found snow-Tanner hybrids at 13.4 times their 1988-2024 average, making up 41.7% of market-size snow and hybrid males (PNAS).
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Wild jackdaws will wait in line so a partner can eat first.
At one-bird feeders in Cornwall, Exeter and Swansea researchers found mates and relatives arrived together, and the one eating was less likely to be pushed off (Proceedings of the Royal Society B).
At one-bird feeders in Cornwall, Exeter and Swansea researchers found mates and relatives arrived together, and the one eating was less likely to be pushed off (Proceedings of the Royal Society B).
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A Roman stone coffin at Westminster Abbey held a man buried centuries after its first owner.
His bones date to AD 987 to 1052. Abbey archaeologist Warwick Rodwell argues he was likely an abbot, Aelfwig or his successor Wulnoth (Journal of the British Archaeological Association).
His bones date to AD 987 to 1052. Abbey archaeologist Warwick Rodwell argues he was likely an abbot, Aelfwig or his successor Wulnoth (Journal of the British Archaeological Association).
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Sediment under a Cold War base in Greenland shows summers were 4.7 degrees C warmer than today when the ice was gone.
The Camp Century site was ice-free about 416,000 years ago. Similar warmth after the last ice age didn't clear it, so duration may matter (Climate of the Past).
The Camp Century site was ice-free about 416,000 years ago. Similar warmth after the last ice age didn't clear it, so duration may matter (Climate of the Past).
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Mars's giant canyon, Valles Marineris, still has faults that slip.
An Imperial College London-led team traced a 2021 marsquake recorded by NASA's InSight lander to faults slipping sideways 20 to 40 km beneath the canyon's western part (Nature Communications).
An Imperial College London-led team traced a 2021 marsquake recorded by NASA's InSight lander to faults slipping sideways 20 to 40 km beneath the canyon's western part (Nature Communications).
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