Water engineers in ancient America of South America returned to Savannas seasonal seasonal in Amazonian Savannas in corn agriculture fires throughout the year. Casaraba people built an innovative, previously unknown network of drainage channels and water storage that enabled two corn harvesters each year, say geoarchologist Umberto Lombardo of the Autonomous University of Barcelona and … Read more
Pluto’s meeting and Charon may have started with a kiss. The new computer simulations of the planet Dwarf and its largest moon suggest that the pair joined a “kiss and clip” collision, where both bodies briefly joined before they were placed in their current positions. “It’s a U-Haul situation,” says planetary scientist Adeene Denton of … Read more
The next time you get caught in the rain, thank your eyelashes for keeping your vision clearly. Experiments with human eyelashes and fibers imitating eyelashes show some traits that help water The advances of science. The outside of a eyelash, or cuticle, acts as a “micro-case”, the researchers report. Water can flow easily from root … Read more
On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, researchers have discovered the remains of an ancient glacier that could be over a million years old. The discovery presents what may be the oldest glacier ice ever found buried in Permafrost – the ground that has been frozen for at least 2 years straight – in … Read more
Putting a telescope in space is one thing. Making two of them deep under the sea is a task in a championship of their own. On a boat that bobing in the Mediterranean Sea, physicists – not usually known for their sea feet – bold weekly trips and rough waters, working around the clock to … Read more
A little known element is shedding light on the trade of transatlantic slaves. Researchers have collected a map of stontium, an element that occurs naturally, throughout the sub-Saharan Africa. These data can be compared to stontium levels measured in human waste to more accurately determine the geographical origin of individuals sold in slavery, the team … Read more
National Port, MD. – For the first time, astronomers have taken a direct look at the interior of an exoplanet. An exoplanette about 800 light years away is pouring his intestines into space, and new observations with the spatial telescope James Webb, or JWST, have left astronomers to read The Entrails, astronomers report this week … Read more
A good sweater is like a cozy hug made of thread. For this, you can thank the friction. A new study reveals how knitted fabrics can take versatile shapes that allow them to comply with the contours of a head or body. The effect is the result of rubbing between adjacent fiber buds that make … Read more
A wicked blustery convergence and prolonged drought has caused destruction in southern California, as fires in Los Angeles have killed at least 28 people and destroyed more than 16,000 structures. According to a new analysis of the world’s weather attributes, this severe number was partially caused by the burning of human fossil fuel. Hot, dry … Read more
Brain implants for depression: sounds like scientific fiction but it is true. Deep enda new podcast from Scientific news, I will give you a brief appearance of what is like living with electrodes in your brain. Can change how you think about mental health, brain and what makes you you. TRANSCRIPT Laura Sanders: Within your … Read more