Neanderthals and modern humans may have shared culture 59,000 years ago in Turkey, study finds
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Fossils, stone tools and seashells in Turkey show that Neanderthals and the Homo sapiens who moved in later had the same hunting strategies and symbolic traditions even without overlapping at the site, suggesting they may have shared information.
Scientists infected a 'vagina on a chip' with gonorrhea — then cured it with a new antibiotic found by AI
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To sift through 6 million molecules in pursuit of new gonorrhea treatments, researchers trained AI to select the best drug candidate and then tested it in a «vagina on a chip.»
China's top-secret 'dragon' space plane just released another unidentified object over Earth
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The Shenlong, or «divine dragon,» space plane just deployed a mysterious payload above our planet. The top-secret spacecraft, which has never been properly photographed, has now released at least nine objects in low Earth orbit.
'It sounds so impossible': Student studying fungus that makes users hallucinate tiny people may be on the verge of a scientific breakthrough
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Live Science spoke with Colin Domnauer, a PhD student in ethnobiology whose unraveling of a mushroom mystery could reveal a new hallucinogenic compound.
New chip harnesses quantum computing's biggest weakness — and tries to turn it into a strength
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A new quantum computing chip turns destructive noise into a programmable feature, helping scientists study signal loss and error correction to build more effective systems in the future.
Water shortages could prevent the US from mining more lithium, deepening reliance on foreign imports
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Most proposed lithium mines in the U.S. overlap with drought-prone regions — including in Nevada, Arizona and California — and there may not be enough water to support them.
'You can't patch your way out of it': Cheap AI worm can spread between devices without human guidance — but how did scientists create it?
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Researchers show how future malware could use AI to make decisions that are traditionally handled by human hackers — but not all experts say we should panic.
NASA rover finds record-breaking trove of complex organic molecules on Mars
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Data from NASA’s Perseverance rover confirms the presence of macromolecular carbon on Mars – another potential piece of the puzzle in the search for life.
'This is the next jump in technology': World's first sub-1nm chip keeps Moore's Law alive a little longer
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IBM's NanoStack architecture has helped scientists cram 100 billion transistors onto a computer chip, delivering 50% better performance and consuming 70% less energy than the current generation.
Some of the last surviving Neanderthals were remarkably diverse — suggesting inbreeding didn't doom them
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Some Neanderthals living in northwestern Europe after 52,500 years ago were surprisingly diverse, suggesting that they didn't all go extinct due to inbreeding.
'Weirdos of the sperm whale world' appear to be evolving 2 different dialects, audio recordings suggest
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Thousands of recordings of sperm whale communications in the Mediterranean Sea reveal that the population might be splitting into two groups with their own dialects.
'Unequivocal evidence' of Earth's oldest impact crater turns out to be off by half a billion years
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A new study updates the age of Earth's oldest known meteorite impact crater, the North Pole Dome crater, which scientists previously claimed was 3.47 billion years old.
60 million stars: Euclid space telescope snaps the largest-ever close-up photo of the Milky Way's heart
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Planet hunters and stargazers will both benefit from the Euclid space telescope's newest image, which was released after 26 hours of deep-space observations.
Drug-induced 'brain freeze' may help protect the brain after a stroke, early study suggests
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By tamping down metabolism, a new experimental treatment that induces a hypothermia-like state may slow stroke-associated brain injury, scientists report.
'Unequivocal evidence' of the age of Earth's oldest impact crater turns out to be off by half a billion years
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A new study updates the age of Earth's oldest known meteorite impact crater, the North Pole Dome crater, which scientists previously claimed was 3.47 billion years old.
Bizarre 'bull's-eye' cloud rings appear above erupting volcano on Atlantic island — Earth from space
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A 2021 satellite photo shows an unusual series of concentric cloud rings that appeared directly above an erupting volcano on La Palma in Spain's Canary Islands.
From covert government surveillance to wireless signals transmitting viruses, tech-centric conspiracy theories have been propagating wildly in recent years. Most of them are completely unfounded — but not all.
'If there's any country that will do it, it's China': Why is China diverting some of the world's mightiest rivers thousands of miles?
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People in China's northern megacities have 74 times less fresh water than the average American — so the Chinese government has built the world's largest water diversion project, with the most ambitious and dangerous route still to come.
Something in space may be changing alien signals before they can reach Earth. Scientists have a solution.
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New research suggests that alien radio signals may be transformed by plasma from their home stars — and scientists on Earth could be overlooking prime evidence of alien intelligence.
'A completely different story': 300 million-year-old fossils reveal the first vertebrate land dwellers weren't what we thought, researchers claim
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Our ancient four-legged ancestors didn't have an amphibian-like life cycle when they began walking on land, according to a new study of rare fossils found near Chicago.
Estrogen levels in both the male and female brain may shape memory's resilience in face of stress
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Traumatic experiences can cause memory problems, and estrogen may be a key factor that shapes the brain's resilience against such stressors, a mouse study finds.
5,000-year-old 'prototype' Stonehenge aligning with solstices discovered near the famous Stone Age monument
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The discovery of two ancient holes at Stonehenge suggests people placed posts there to help observe the summer and winter solstices around 5,000 years ago.
'Is it really necessary to generate another image?': UN scientist explains how everyday people can limit AI's environmental impact
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Live Science spoke with Kaveh Madani, the lead investigator of a United Nations report examining AI's environmental footprint, about this technology's staggering energy use and what users can do to limit their impact.
Wildlife inside Chernobyl exclusion zone acted differently during Russia's invasion, camera traps reveal
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Camera footage in Ukraine's Chernobyl exclusion zone revealed that mammals became less active — especially at night — during the Russian occupation, highlighting the war's immediate impact on wildlife.
Wreck of World War II Japanese 'hellship' that sank with more than 1,000 Allied POWs on board discovered off the Philippines
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The remains of a Japanese «hellship» that was torpedoed in 1944 and sank with more than 1,000 POWs on board has been found off the coast of the Philippines island of Luzon.
