Oldest known cosmetics found in ceramic bottles on Balkan Peninsula
A trio of researchers from Slovenia's Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia at the Centre for Preventive Archaeology and Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, in Germany, has found evidence of the oldest known use of cosmetic.....»»
U.S. vehicles get older and bigger as economic environment, consumer preferences change
Consumers' choices to keep their current vehicles longer and purchase used instead of new are pushing the average age of U.S. vehicles up — a boon for the service industry. Passenger cars are the oldest on average; electric vehicles are the younges.....»»
April heat in western Med "almost impossible without climate change"
The extreme heat that engulfed the Iberian peninsula and parts of north Africa last week would have been "almost impossible without climate change," an international scientific study found Friday......»»
Research reveals longstanding cultural continuity at oldest occupied site in West Africa
Evidence from West Africa about human evolution remains scarce, but recent research has indicated unique patterns of cultural change in comparison to other regions of the continent. A new article in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution adds to ou.....»»
An epic global study of moss reveals it is far more vital to Earth"s ecosystems than we knew
Mosses are some of the oldest land plants. They are found all over the world, from lush tropical rainforests to the driest deserts, and even the wind-swept hills of Antarctica......»»
Oldest human remains from Puerto Rico reveal a complex cultural landscape since 1800 BC
The earliest inhabitants of Puerto Rico might have used common burial sites and mortuary practices across many centuries, according to a study published April 26, 2023, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by William J. Pestle of the University of Mia.....»»
NASA retires mineral mapping instrument on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
NASA switched off one of its oldest instruments studying Mars on April 3, a step that's been planned since last year. Riding aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, CRISM, or the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, revealed miner.....»»
Meet the world’s lightest champagne bottle
Champagne bottles are notoriously thick to ensure they can withstand immense pressure from the bubbles inside. A new bottle by French champagne house Telmont is thinner, lighter, and ultimately, more sustainable. In 2020, Ludovic du Plessis, then ne.....»»
One of Link’s oldest enemies returns in new Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom ad
An enemy from the very first Legend of Zelda game will return in Tears of the Kingdom......»»
Gatorade Smart Gx Bottle review: Better hydration with a squeeze
Smart water bottles are a great way to keep track of your daily water intake to ensure you stay hydrated throughout the day. Gatorade's Smart Gx water bottle reminds you to stay hydrated throughout the day while automatically syncing your intake numb.....»»
Climate change, farmers draining ancient Balkan lake
For millennia, Lake Prespa was pristine. But under pressure from climate change, unchecked pumping and pollution, the prehistoric body of water in southeast Europe is shrinking at an alarming rate......»»
World"s "oldest" tree able to reveal planet"s secrets
In a forest in southern Chile, a giant tree has survived for thousands of years and is in the process of being recognized as the oldest in the world......»»
NASA teams with US Forest Service to tally America"s oldest trees
Century-old sugar maples in Wisconsin. Five-hundred-year-old cedars in Oklahoma. Fifty-foot-wide oaks in Georgia. These trees grace our nation's old-growth forests, and scientists say they hold unexplored mysteries from their roots to their rings......»»
360-million-year-old Irish fossil provides oldest evidence of plant self-defense in wood
Plants can protect their wood from infection and water loss by forming special structures called "tyloses." These prevent bacterial and fungal pathogens from getting into the heartwood of living trees and damaging it. How early in the evolution of pl.....»»
Horodyskia is among the oldest multicellular macroorganisms, finds study
Horodyskia, characterized by a string of beads with uniform size and spacing, is a kind of macroscopic fossil with a record extending from the early Mesoproterozoic Era (~1.48 Ga) to the terminal Ediacaran Period (~550 Ma)......»»
JWST"s Newfound Galaxies Are the Oldest Ever Seen
We now know that the first galaxies in our universe formed shockingly fast, thanks to the latest results from the James Webb Space Telescope.....»»
Oldest US agricultural plots go digital: 130+ years of data now online
In 1876, when University of Illinois professor Manly Miles established the Morrow Plots, he couldn't have imagined the plots would become the oldest continuous agricultural experiment in the Western Hemisphere. Nor could he imagine, more than a centu.....»»
Leatec steps up deployment in EV sector
Leatec Fine Ceramics, a Taiwan-based dedicated maker of aluminum and ceramic substrates needed for manufacturing chip resistors, has stepped up its deployment in the EV sector......»»
Oldest bat skeletons ever found described from Wyoming fossils
Scientists have described a new species of bat based on the oldest bat skeletons ever recovered. The study on the extinct bat, which lived in Wyoming about 52 million years ago, supports the idea that bats diversified rapidly on multiple continents d.....»»
How the world"s oldest known meteorite impact structure changed the chemistry of Earth"s crust
Meteorite impacts can be cataclysmic events in the history of a planet, melting rock, changing atmospheric chemistry, and wreaking general havoc......»»
Scientists increase efficiency of enzyme that breaks down PET plastic
One of the most widely used plastics in the world is polyethylene terephthalate, or PET for short. It is everywhere in our daily lives in the form of reusable PET drink bottles. At the end of the lifecycle of a product containing PET, the environment.....»»