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What Stone-Wielding Macaques Can Tell Us about Early Human Tool Use

Share this on WhatsApp Consider the possibility that all human technology started with a mistake—or at least a lack of hand-eye coordination. In pursuit of this idea, Lydia Luncz and Tomos Proffitt, both at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, traveled to an abandoned oil palm plantation near Thailand’s Phang Nga […]

Hidden in Plain Sight: Has Evidence for Life on Venus Been in Our Grasp for 40 Years?

Share this on WhatsApp Earlier this month scientists announced the surprising discovery of phosphine on Venus. This compound of phosphorus and hydrogen could be associated with life. While efforts to confirm the finding via observations from Earth or even fortuitously planned spacecraft flybys are underway, archived data from a decades-old NASA mission to Venus may […]

JWST’s Newfound Galaxies Are the Oldest Ever Seen

Share this on WhatsApp In a cosmological matchup of “Are they or aren’t they?” the contest is firmly in the former’s favor—10 to one, at last count. The question is one of profound importance: Are the galaxies the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is seeing in the early universe really as astonishingly remote as we […]