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The discovery of butchered bones belonging to a glyptodont, a giant relative of the armadillo, suggests that humans were living in Argentina 20,000 years ago.

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Astronomers are proposing a new, more quantitative definition of what makes a planet. The new definition looks more directly at the object’s mass — but it would still leave Pluto out of the running.

A new study examines fossil teeth of the Taung Child to hone in on its age.

New simulations suggest that a 9-mile-thick layer of diamonds may lurk deep below the surface of Mercury. The gems almost certainly can’t be mined for bling — but they may help solve some of the planet’s biggest mysteries.

The ESM3 model can ‘write’ new proteins from scratch, opening up new possibilities for synthetic biology.

A coastal taipan named Cyclone recently delivered three times the average amount of venom for its species in one go, setting a new record.

Astronomical interferometry (noun, “As-troh-NAH-mih-kul IN-tur-fur-AH-meh-tree”) Astronomical interferometry is a technique to view distant things in space. It combines data from multiple telescopes to image a celestial object. When light collected by two or more telescopes is mixed, those light waves…

ChatGPT and other artificial-intelligence tools are already reshaping our digital lives. But our AI interactions are now about to get physical. Humanoid robots powered by a certain type of AI could better sense and react to the world than past machines. Such…

Like most little kids, Anne Kort was fascinated by dinosaurs. But by high school, she had become interested in other kinds of prehistoric life. “I just wanted to learn about everything that wasn’t a dinosaur,” says Kort. “I like all…

Earth’s tundra is warming about four times faster than the rest of the planet. The rising fever in this Arctic ecosystem is boosting the production of carbon dioxide (CO2) by underground microbes, a new study suggests. If true, it could…

It was a drizzly day, last year, when two researchers first took on the Wall of Death. This amusement park attraction near Parma, Italy, looks something like a giant wooden barrel with the top sawed off. But on this dreary…

Kids like Tola Martins in Disney’s Iwájú don’t drive to school, they fly. Harry Potter and Ron Weasley pulled a similar stunt when they missed the train to Hogwarts. As did Flint Lockwood when he had to stop a giant…

Superconductor (noun, “SOOP-er-con-DUCK-tor”) A superconductor is a material that conducts electricity without resistance. Many materials conduct electricity. That is, they allow electric currents to flow through them. Such materials are called conductors. For instance, metal wires conduct electricity that powers…

Ivory is so popular that poachers regularly kill elephants for their tusks. To stop the slaughter of these animals, most nations banned the international sale of elephant ivory in 1989. Those laws have not totally stopped poachers. But lasers might,…

For a long time, scientists thought Venus was geologically dead. But newfound evidence suggests active volcanoes may be common on this second planet from the sun. The finding emerged during a careful review of photos taken more than 30 years…

For the first time, an orangutan has been seen doctoring a wound. Scientists describe it as the first evidence of a wild animal caring for a wound using a natural substance that’s known to aid healing. Researchers shared their discovery…

Sounds like trouble Exposing zebra finch eggs and hatchlings to traffic noise can lead to lifelong reductions in health and reproduction, Jonathan Lambert reported in “Traffic noise harms bird eggs” (SN: 6/1/24, p. 9). Reader Gary Wilson asked how noise…

DNA is capable of encoding all sorts of data. Storing it in an amberlike material may keep that information safe for nearly forever.

Radiocarbon from bomb tests reveals that plants store more carbon than previously estimated in leaves and stems, which are vulnerable to degradation.

Tissue-targeting antibodies have been a key suspect in long COVID. Now, two studies show that antibodies from patients can cause symptoms in mice.

Hydrogen bonded with sulfur may have given our world its first water after the hydrogen broke away and joined with oxygen in the planet’s crust.

A new device, modeled after a python’s teeth and grip, could double the strength of rotator cuff repairs and prevent retearing after surgery.

An analysis of images spanning hundreds of years suggests a dark spot spied in the late 1600s and early 1700s is distinct from the Red Spot seen today.

A high dose of the psychedelic drug briefly throws the brain off kilter. Other, longer-lasting changes could hint at psilocybin’s therapeutic effects.

As different coronavirus variants took center stage during the pandemic, the chances of developing long COVID fell, especially for vaccinated people.

The model, which was trained on data from ocean buoys to identify potential rogue waves, could help save lives.

The newly discovered planet TIC 241249530 b has the most highly elliptical, or eccentric, orbit of any known planet. It appears to be a juvenile planet that is in the midst of becoming a hot Jupiter, and its orbit is…

During an event, details like what you saw, smelled, and felt aren’t stored as a single memory. Rather, they are encoded and stored in your brain separately. To retrieve that memory, those pieces must get put back together. When that…