Friendship ornaments from the Stone Age
As most archaeological material is found in a fragmented state, the phenomenon has been considered a natural consequence of objects' having been long buried underground. However, according to Postdoctoral Researcher Marja Ahola from the University of.....»»
Was North America populated by "stepping stone" migration across Bering Sea?
For thousands of years during the last ice age, generations of maritime migrants paddled skin boats eastward across shallow ocean waters from Asia to present-day Alaska. They voyaged from island to island and ultimately to shore, surviving on bountif.....»»
Facebook hid posts calling for PM Modi’s resignation in India ‘by mistake’
Updated at 1.17am IST, Thursday: Facebook comms Andy Stone said the company has restored the posts and is “looking into what happened.” Updated at 5.50am IST, Thursday: Facebook says it temporarily blocked the hashtag by “mistake.....»»
Facebook ‘looking into’ hiding of posts calling for PM Modi’s resignation in India
Updated at 1.17am IST, Thursday: Facebook comms Andy Stone said the company has restored the posts and is “looking into what happened.” Original story follows. Facebook has temporarily hidden all posts with hashtag “ResignModi”.....»»
Luca preview: How a real-world friendship inspired Pixar’s sea monster story
The director of Pixar's Luca explains how a real-world friendship during a summer on the Italian Riviera inspired his animated sea-monster story......»»
Synthesis method expands material possibilities
Since the beginning of civilization, humans have exploited new materials to improve their lives, from the prehistoric Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age to the modern Silicon Age. With each period came technological breakthroughs that transformed th.....»»
In Peru, pre-Columbian canals offer hope against drought
In the mountains of western Peru, a farming community is restoring a network of stone canals built more than a millennium ago, hoping the pre-Columbian technology holds the solution to its water problems......»»
Stone skipping techniques can improve reentry of space vehicles
Skipping stones on a body of water is an age-old game, but developing a better understanding of the physics involved is crucial for more serious matters, such as water landings upon reentry of spaceflight vehicles or aircrafts......»»
Stone Age black bears didn"t just defecate in the woods—they did it in a cave too
Scientists have sequenced ancient DNA from soil for the first time and the advance will transform what is known about everything from evolution to climate change......»»
Quality and quantity of enrichments influence well-being of aquaculture fishes
Collaborative research of the University of Jyvaskyla and Natural Research Institute Finland presents new evidence of the effects of enriched rearing on well-being of aquaculture fishes. The research demonstrates that stone enrichments that have been.....»»
Ancient DNA hints at diverse Stone Age traditions of kinship
Genomes from University of Liverpool excavations of burials around some of the earliest houses in history contributed to a major study by an international team of geneticists, anthropologists and archaeologists, revealing more about the remarkable di.....»»
New evidence suggests sexual division of labor as farming arose in Europe
A new investigation of stone tools buried in graves provides evidence supporting the existence of a division of different types of labor between people of male and female biological sex at the start of the Neolithic. Alba Masclans of Consejo Superior.....»»
SambaNova raises $676M at a $5.1B valuation to double down on cloud-based AI software for enterprises
Artificial intelligence technology holds a huge amount of promise for enterprises — as a tool to process and understand their data more efficiently; as a way to leapfrog into new kinds of services and products; and as a critical stepping stone.....»»
Drought in Taiwan Pits Chip Makers Against Farmers
smooth wombat writes: Chuang Cheng-deng's modest rice farm is a stone's throw from the nerve center of Taiwan's computer chip industry, whose products power a huge share of the world's iPhones and other gadgets. This year, Mr. Chuang is paying the pr.....»»
Modern human brain originated in Africa around 1.7 million years ago
The human brain as we know it today is relatively young. It evolved about 1.7 million years ago when the culture of stone tools in Africa became increasingly complex. A short time later, the new Homo populations spread to Southeast Asia, researchers.....»»
Research finds that coral predators exert a much larger influence on young coral than expected
You might not think an animal made out of stone would have much to worry about in the way of predators, and that's largely what scientists had thought about coral. Although corallivores like parrotfish and pufferfish are well known to biologists, the.....»»
Humans were apex predators for two million years
Researchers at Tel Aviv University were able to reconstruct the nutrition of stone age humans. In a paper published in the Yearbook of the American Physical Anthropology Association, Dr. Miki Ben-Dor and Prof. Ran Barkai of the Jacob M. Alkov Departm.....»»
Best cheap drone deals for April 2021: DJI, Potensic, Holy Stone and more
Buying a drone? Here are answers to the most common questions and the best drone deals available right now......»»
Analysis of ancient bones reveals Stone Age diet details
Fish was not on the menu of the hunter-gatherers of southern Europe 27,000 years ago. Surprisingly, people on the Iberian Peninsula in the Late Gravettian period mostly ate plants and land animals such as rabbits, deer and horses. An international te.....»»
The world"s earliest stone technologies are likely to be older than previously thought
A new study from the University of Kent's School of Anthropology and Conservation has found that Oldowan and Acheulean stone tool technologies are likely to be tens of thousands of years older than current evidence suggests......»»
Arcadia steps in to Texas’ startup energy market with the acquisition of Real Simple Energy
On the third greatest television show of all time (sorry Rolling Stone), one of Texas’ most famous fictional football players once said, “When all the scared rats are leaving a sinking market, that’s when a real entrepreneur steps i.....»»