Moai: Drones Reveal 30 Secret Workshops on Easter Island
11 aerial photos reveal that each Rapa Nui family carved their own moai: no empire, just rival clans with different styles.
Japanese (Re)discovery: Raisin Wine in 2 Weeks
Sun-dried raisins ferment into wine better than fresh grapes. Researchers in Kyoto have discovered why the ancients used them.
SWEET, sugar to find dark matter
Physicists are targeting sugar: ultracold crystals as traps. The SWEET project has already begun its hunt for the invisible.
Berkeley, shocking news from sperm whales: they "speak" with vowels
By speeding up the recordings, the researchers heard human vocalizations in the sperm whales. The distance between us and them has just narrowed.
Accurate statistical forecasting: MALP predicts reality.
MALP turns statistical predictions on their head: it doesn't matter how wrong you are on average, what matters is how closely your numbers match the facts.
Bees Learn Morse Code: Neuroscientists Surprised
Evidence from Queen Mary University of London: bees' brains recognize light duration and learn logically.
Hypoxia, a crucial discovery: low oxygen levels rewrite the immune code.
Hypoxia reprograms immune cells. This is why infections keep returning after severe pneumonia.
Asteroxylon, the enigma of the plant that doesn't follow Fibonacci
A 407-million-year-old fossil proves that the first plants didn't follow the Fibonacci sequence. Nature's mathematics is changing.
Armenia, who is the forgotten god emerging after 2500 years?
Urartu fortress reveals mysterious idol and necropolis with 50 urns. Armenia rewrites its ancient spiritual history.
How Ice Forms at Room Temperature: Ice XXI
Ice freezing at 20°C. Extreme pressure and lasers reveal ice XXI: 152 molecules per unit, unlike anything else.
The Earth Was Purple: What Was There Before Chlorophyll?
The purple archaea colored the early Earth. They absorbed the green, leaving only red and blue for the plants. Then everything changed.
Rock Art: Giant Survival Maps Found
Monumental rock art reveals how nomads survived: carvings as tall as buildings marked water sources in the desert.
What if life was just another kind of computer?
From von Neumann's self-replicating automata to neural cellular automata: seventy years of proof that life is a form of distributed computing.
Premonitions exist, and a study reveals how they work.
84% of people have experienced premonitions. Science explains how the subconscious processes signals before conscious awareness.
Will-o'-the-wisps: The mystery of the blue lights solved
Not spirits but physics: will-o'-the-wisps are born from sparks between charged bubbles that trigger the cold oxidation of methane.
Homo longi: the skull that pushes our origins back
A flattened skull from China has been reconstructed: Homo longi is closer to us than Neanderthals. Human evolution began earlier and elsewhere.
New Studies: Wine and Beer Like You've Never Seen Them Before
Four recent discoveries reveal that every sip of wine or beer is a biological experiment. And we are the unwitting subjects.
Dog Behavior: What the World's Largest Study Says
The behavior of 47.000 dogs was mapped: fear, alertness, aggression, and trainability varied by breed and size.
A new element for the periodic table: 120 is just around the corner.
Titanium as a projectile, californium as a target: this is the recipe for creating element 120, the superheavy element that will revolutionize chemistry. A challenge at the limits of physics, between hope and skepticism.
After wolves, mice and mammoths, Colossal “cultivates” the return of the Dodo
Texas startup Colossal raises $320 million in funding, grows cells that will "de-extinct" dodos after 300 years.
Dinosaur Voices Revealed: Here's How They "Sang"
But what Jurassic Park? Dinosaurs didn't roar at all, but "sang" like birds. A paleoacoustic discovery changes everything.
