Science
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Stick shaped by ancient humans is the oldest known wooden tool
Artist’s reconstruction of a Palaeolithic woman making a digging stick from an alder tree trunk G. Prieto; K. Harvati The…
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Why a tool-using cow could change how we see farm animals
Veronika the cow is the first recorded non-primate mammal to demonstrate flexible, multi-purpose tool use Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró A…
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Pompeii’s public baths were unhygienic until the Romans took over
The Stabian Baths, one of the bathhouses first built by the Samnites in Pompeii Icas94/De Agostini via Getty Images A…
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Northern Greenland ice dome melted before and could melt again
Researchers working at Prudhoe Dome in Greenland Caleb K. Walcott-George An ice dome in northern Greenland once melted completely at…
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Mathematicians unified key laws of physics in 2025
The equations that govern fluids can be tricky to handle Vladimir Veljanovski / Alamy In 1900, mathematician David Hilbert presented…
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New Scientist changed the UK’s freedom of information laws in 2025
Our successful request for Peter Kyle’s ChatGPT logs stunned observers Tada Images/Victoria Jones/Shutterstock When I fired off an email at…
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The world will soon be losing 3000 glaciers every year
Meltwater runs through a glacier cave at the front of Morteratsch glacier in Switzerland Lander Van Tricht About 1000 glaciers…
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Odd elements in supernova blast might have implications for alien life
The supernova remnant Cassiopeia A NASA/JPL-Caltech/O. Krause (Steward Observatory) Hidden within Cassiopeia A, the youngest known exploded star in our…
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What would Russia’s inability to launch crewed missions mean for ISS?
The Soyuz spacecraft blasting off on 27 November Roscosmos space corporation, via AP/Alamy The International Space Station (ISS) may soon…
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A new understanding of causality could fix quantum theory’s fatal flaw
The ball rolls across the floor because it was kicked, just as Earth orbits the sun because it is tugged…
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