Autumn shortens the days, deepens the twilight, and is always trying to pin us down on the couch with a “so what?” Pets aren't just cute little tails, but living countermeasures to the autumnal sluggishness. They draw us into the…
Once upon a time, there lived Varvara. No, it was me, and Varvara existed in another dimension—in the family of my distant relatives. The family consisted of three women. My mother was a good ten years older than me, my…
The entire set of 29 blades and tips was likely once carried in a leather pouch that has long since disintegrated. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. A group of tools at an excavation site. Analysis revealed that the 29 artifacts were…
The North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre is a system of currents located south of Greenland. (Image credit: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio) A new analysis of shellfish shells suggests that a vast system of rotating ocean currents in the North Atlantic is…
Plate tectonics may have played a more significant role in the evolution of life on Earth than previously thought. (Image courtesy of Nicholas Forder) The Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents converge and move apart, and earthquakes…
Jane Goodall and baby chimpanzee Flint in Gombe, Tanzania. Flint, the first baby chimpanzee born after Jane's arrival, provided her with a rare opportunity to study animal development, although physical contact with wild chimpanzees is currently considered unethical. (Image: National…