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Humans used whale bones to make tools 20,000 years ago

Western Europeans crafted hunting weapons out of bones from whales stranded on the Atlantic shoreline between 20,000...

The first cicada concert was 47 million years ago

The oldest known fossil of a singing cicada reveals that these insects were making music during the...

A New Study Reveals the Makeup of Uranus’ Atmosphere

Uranus, the seventh planet in the solar system, located between Saturn and Neptune, has long been a...

Why Women With Type 2 Diabetes Are Diagnosed Later Than Men

Statistically, men are more likely than women to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, with about 18...

The Milky Way Has a Mysterious ‘Broken Bone’

If you look at the Milky Way through a powerful telescope, you’ll notice that close to the...

The Quest to Prove the Existence of a New Type of Quantum Particle

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.On a quiet pandemic afternoon in 2021, Zhiyuan...

Want to Claim the Solar Tax Credit? Get Installing Now

This story originally appeared Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.For the last two decades,...

The long and short of science

Nancy Shute is editor in chief of Science News Media Group. Previously, she was an editor...

Readers discuss the biology of sex, plastic in the brain and more

It’s a matter of size A January executive order by President Donald Trump designates people as...

Math puzzle: The conundrum of sharing

This month, we visit a trendy (but fictional) spa with an unusual feature: hot mud beds. You...

Wet fingers always wrinkle in the same way

McKenzie Prillaman is a science and health journalist based in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor’s...

Sloths once came in a dizzying array of sizes. Here’s why

The sloth family tree once sported a dizzying array of branches, body sizes and lifestyles, from small...
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