Monthly Archive: July 2018
By Lisa-Ann Lee – Several well-preserved Neanderthal remains have been found in the Vindija cave in Croatia (Credit: MPI f. Evolutionary Anthropology/ J. Krause) When life gives you an ancient cave filled with dirt, look for DNA. That’s what paleontologists and those involved …
Ben Coxworth – The University of Tartu’s Prof. Toomas Tenno, with test pieces of the material (Credit: Merilyn Merisalu) Some of the earliest houses in Northern Europe were made out of slabs of peat, as it was a cheap and abundant building …
Michael Irving – A section of jawbone discovered in Israel appears to be the earliest modern human fossil ever found outside of Africa, pushing back the date of human migration into the Middle East by at least 50,000 years (Credit: Gerhard Weber, University of Vienna) The …
by Ned Dymoke – Airplane!, 1980, Paramount Pictures. A Harvard study of 44 students has confirmed what each and every one of us who has ever been an adult human has learned: summer heat doesn’t help you think. Half the students lived …
Ben Coxworth – Each SolarGap slat is equipped with an array of solar panels. Regular window blinds already help people to save electricity – by keeping incoming sunlight from heating a room up, they reduce the need to run an air conditioner. …
David Szondy – Volumetric printing replaces layering with a process that creates the entire object simultaneously (Credit: LLNL) How do you create complex 3D-printed objects in seconds, instead of hours or days? A team of scientists and engineers led by Lawrence Livermore …
Michael Irving – At about 10 tons, Ingentia prima was the first giant dinosaur (Credit: Jorge A. González) Most of the classic creatures that come to mind when you think of dinosaurs are from the Cretaceous period, when evolution seems to have …
by Scotty Hendricks – India is a vast land, rich in history, beauty, and great ideas. Here, we want to introduce you to ten great minds in Indian thought. These ten thinkers span thousands of years, include several religions, and more than a …
by Elizabeth Boakes and David Redding – Najin, the older of only two remaining female northern white rhinoceros subspecies, sleeps on December 5, 2016, at the Ol Pejeta conservancy in Laikipia County — at the foot of Mount Kenya. Photo: TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images. …
by Philip Perry – Skara Brae. A Neolithic stone settlement. It’s located on the Bay of Skaill, on the largest island in the Orkney archipelago, off the coast of Scotland. (Image credit: Dr. John F. Burka, Wikipedia Commons).The Neolithic period or “New Stone Age,” developed at …
