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Earliest evidence of human activity found in the Americas

Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico provide the earliest unequivocal evidence of human activity in the Americas and offer insight into life over 23,000 years ago......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgSep 23rd, 2021

A conservation market could incentivize global ocean protection

The countries of the world have agreed: Our planet needs more protection from human activity. And with the globe facing an assortment of environmental crises, they realized the plan needed to be ambitious. Thirty-by-thirty was their proposal: protect.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 13th, 2024

Scientists unravel drivers of the global zinc cycle in our oceans, with implications for a changing climate

The important role of the Southern Ocean in global biological processes and the carbon cycle has been confirmed anew by a study published in Science that, for the first time based on field evidence, reveals the underappreciated role of inorganic zinc.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsJun 13th, 2024

Scientists discover non-transcriptional mechanism of karrikin signaling transduction

Researchers led by Dr. Wang Lei and Wang Bing from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have shown that the non-transcriptional activity of the transcriptional repressor proteins SUPPRESSOR OF MAX2 1.....»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsJun 13th, 2024

Researchers discover honeybees can detect lung cancer

Michigan State University researchers have discovered that honeybees can detect biomarkers or chemical concentrations associated with lung cancer in human breath. The researchers have also shown that the honeybees can distinguish between different lu.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 13th, 2024

Earliest-ever Greek heat wave shuts Acropolis for second day

The Athens Acropolis, Greece's most visited tourist attraction, was closed to the public during the hottest hours on Thursday for the second day running, as the country's earliest-ever heat wave neared its peak......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 13th, 2024

Taylor Swift made "ground shaking" UK debut: Seismologists

Taylor Swift fans literally made the earth move as the US singer-songwriter began her UK tour, the British Geological Survey said on Thursday, with seismic activity recorded six kilometers (nearly four miles) away......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 13th, 2024

Research finds dolphins with elevated mercury levels in Florida and Georgia

In a study with potential implications for the oceans and human health, scientists have reported elevated mercury levels in dolphins in the U.S. Southeast, with the greatest levels found in dolphins in Florida's St. Joseph and Choctawhatchee Bays......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 13th, 2024

Study: Climate change drove the route shift of the ancient Silk Road in two distinct ways

Climate change has convincingly been linked to the evolution of human civilization on different temporal scales. In a recent study published in the journal Science Bulletin, researchers note that the role of climate change in influencing spatial chan.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 13th, 2024

Researchers find earliest evidence for a microblade adaptation in the Tibetan plateau

A research team led by Prof. Zhang Xiaoling from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, published a paper entitled "The Earliest Evidence for a Microblade Adaptation in the Remote, High Alt.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 13th, 2024

While aiming for massive gas cloud, astronomers spot differences in thickness of Milky Way Galaxy

Space may appear vast and empty, but it's full of cosmological objects that are invisible to the human eye. From our vantage point on Earth, many of these objects fall between astronomers and what they hope to observe, impacting what they find. This.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 13th, 2024

Astronomers discover parallel disks and jets erupting from a pair of young stars

Most of the universe is invisible to the human eye. The building blocks of stars are only revealed in wavelengths that are outside of the visible spectrum. Astronomers recently used two very different, and very powerful, telescopes to discover twin d.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 12th, 2024

Exploring online morality in the context of evolved human responses

In a review article in PNAS Nexus, Claire Robertson and colleagues explore how human morality, which evolved in the context of small in-person groups, functions on the internet with over five billion users......»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsJun 12th, 2024

Book bans as political action: Evidence from US schools

During the 2022 school year, schools banned books more often than ever before in United States history. Katie Spoon, Isabelle Langrock, and colleagues analyzed data from PEN America on 2,532 book bans that occurred during the year, in combination wit.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsJun 12th, 2024

Cocaine trafficking threatens critical bird habitats, new study shows

In addition to its human consequences, cocaine trafficking harms the environment and threatens habitats important to dozens of species of migratory birds, according to a new study......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 12th, 2024

Data from Inspiration4 astronauts suggests short space trips aren’t harmful to health

New research that was conducted on the four civilian astronauts of the Inspiration 4 mission shows the effects of short-duration spaceflight on the human body......»»

Category: topSource:  digitaltrendsRelated NewsJun 12th, 2024

Study finds human-caused nitrous oxide emissions grew 40% from 1980–2020, greatly accelerating climate change

Emissions of nitrous oxide—a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide or methane—continued unabated between 1980 and 2020, a year when more than 10-million metric tons were released into the atmosphere primarily through farming practices, a.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 11th, 2024

Human bodies mostly recover from space, tourist mission shows

How bad for your health is space travel? Answering this question will be crucial not just for astronauts aiming to go to Mars, but for a booming space tourism industry planning to blast anyone who can afford it into orbit......»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsJun 11th, 2024

As NASA watches Starship closely, here’s what the agency wants to see next

"What happens if I don't have a Human Landing System available to execute a mission?" Enlarge / The rocket for SpaceX's fourth full-scale Starship test flight awaits liftoff from Starbase, the company's private launch base in Sou.....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated NewsJun 11th, 2024

Study finds 1 in 7 adults have experienced someone threaten to share their intimate images

A global study on the prevalence of sexual extortion among adults has found the issue to be more widespread than initially thought. The study, "Sextortion: Prevalence and correlates in 10 countries," was published in Computers in Human Behavior.....»»

Category: topSource:  theglobeandmailRelated NewsJun 11th, 2024

New technique could help build quantum computers of the future

Quantum computers have the potential to solve complex problems in human health, drug discovery, and artificial intelligence millions of times faster than some of the world's fastest supercomputers. A network of quantum computers could advance these d.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 11th, 2024