A new study of artifacts found in a cave in Israel suggests that human beings began using fire at will around 350,000 years ago, with earlier uses likely more opportunistic than controlled.
Stunning find: ‘Missing link’ in black hole evolution discovered
Scientists believe that intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) lead to the creation of the supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies, but such bodies have been highly elusive.
Could the methane lakes of Saturn’s moon Titan redefine ‘life as we know it’?
A team of researchers has come up with a theoretical model for life in an atmosphere with no water or oxygen.
Global warming “hiatus” may be about to fold into a global temperature spike
Researchers say that ocean currents which caused global warming to slow are about to change and things could get hot fast.
Bumblebees, like people, tend to misremember events
The faults with human memory may be widespread in the animal kingdom, say researchers.
Science explains how the blue dress can look gold
A few clever tricks that give your brain false clues and force it to fill in information that isn’t there can yield confusing visual effects.
Dutch scientists use quantum physics to design ‘unhackable’ credit cards
New research promises to make quantum encryption of credit cards a bomb-proof hacking safeguard.
Kinks in the plumbing cause geysers to erupt in predictable ways
UC Berkeley researchers hope that a better understanding of geysers will shed some light on volcanic activity as well.
Voyager hitches a ride through interstellar space on ‘cosmic tsunami’
Voyager 1, the world’s first and only spacecraft to ever enter interstellar space, is currently surfing a big wave caused by the sun.
As warming for the rest of Earth slows, heat somehow doubles in the arctic
Findings presented in a new federal report indicate that the Arctic region is heating up twice as quickly as the rest of the world.
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