80,000-year-old arrowheads from a cave in Uzbekistan are barely 2cm wide, and they sat in already-excavated material, unnoticed, because they were broken.
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Morning Glories, Climate Change, and a 96% Adaptation Drop
Morning glories and climate change: a nine-year study found their rate of adaptation fell 96 percent. The reason is not depletion — it is something stranger.
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Dark Matter Detector Caught One Event It Can’t Explain
A dark matter detector a mile underground caught one event it cannot explain — and the physicists still refuse to call it a discovery. Here is why that matters.
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Mars Hidden Magma System Found 24 km Below the Crust
A Mars hidden magma system was found 24 km below the crust. Seismic data says the planet built a complex, layered crust with no plate tectonics at all.
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Eight-Letter DNA: The Enzyme Nobody Had to Teach
Life writes with four letters. Scientists got eight-letter DNA to work – and the natural enzyme that read the new letters was never once designed to do it.
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Saturn’s Decagon: A 10-Sided Shape That Wasn’t There Before
The Saturn decagon is a giant 10-sided wave over the planet’s south pole. Astronomers hunted it since 1990 and found nothing — until it formed on its own.
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Living Transistors: MIT’s Bacteria Compute in 8 Hours
MIT built living transistors from bacteria that really compute — but each calculation takes eight hours. Here is what that slowness quietly reveals about life.
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Why Slow Breathing Makes You Bolder, Not Calmer
Slow breathing is meant to calm you down. But in a brain scanner, a long exhale made people bolder instead – and it moved just one side of the scale, not both.
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How Complex Life Began: Two Cells That Can’t Live Apart
How complex life began may come down to two microbes in Shark Bay, joined by tiny tubes and unable to grow alone. Here is what that partnership reveals.
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Why Bats Don’t Get Sick: They Carry Two Antibody Systems
Why bats don’t get sick from viruses that harm people: scientists found a second set of antibody genes no other mammal has. Here is what it actually does.