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25,000-Year-Old Teeth Reveal One of Humanity’s Oldest Drug Habits
A pair of ancient human teeth has revealed something researchers did not expect to find buried in an Ice Age cave: evidence that people may have been repeatedly using a psychoactive plant thousands of years before agriculture began. The strange discovery came from two sets of human remains found in caves in South Sulawesi. Their…
A 1,500-Foot Tsunami Hit Alaska. Scientists Warn It Could Happen Again
The mountain gave way at 5:26 on a Sunday morning, sending more than 63 million cubic metres of rock crashing into Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord. The impact forced the water upward with such force that it climbed 481 metres up the opposite mountainside, creating a wave roughly 1,578 feet high. Nobody died, but researchers say…
Scientists Created A Robot Finger Covered In Living Human Skin
A robotic finger covered in real human skin sounds like something lifted from a science-fiction film, but researchers in Japan have actually built one in a laboratory. The strange-looking creation can bend with its mechanical joints, develop natural-looking wrinkles and even repair damaged tissue with the help of a collagen graft. The project, led by…
AI Data Centers Are Tied To A Staggering Amount Of Water Use Across 7 States
Artificial intelligence may be running on electricity, but a new report suggests there is another resource quietly powering the data center boom: an enormous amount of freshwater. As companies race to build larger facilities packed with increasingly powerful chips, the infrastructure behind AI is creating demands that extend far beyond electricity grids and computer hardware.…
Scientists Found a Possible Weak Spot in Parkinson’s Disease, And a Cancer Drug May Already Target It
Parkinson’s disease has always presented researchers with a brutal problem: by the time symptoms become obvious, damage has already been spreading through the brain for years. Now, scientists at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have identified a pair of proteins that appear to help harmful alpha-synuclein move from neuron to neuron, and blocking them…
Nurse Who Couldn’t Speak English Drew A Surgery Note That Went Viral
A hospital nurse in China reportedly faced a problem that could have left a foreign patient dangerously confused: she needed to explain crucial pre-surgery instructions, but she could not speak English and he could not understand her language. The patient was an international student preparing for surgery, and two instructions had to reach him before…
Scientists Found Something Surprisingly Different Happening In Your Brain When You Write By Hand
For years, typing has quietly replaced handwriting in classrooms, offices, and everyday life. It is faster, easier to edit, and far more convenient when there is a lot of information to record. But researchers comparing the two activities found something happening inside the brain that could make people think twice before abandoning pen and paper…
Archaeologists Found Something Buried Beneath Göbekli Tepe That Changes the Story of the Ancient Site
For decades, Göbekli Tepe has been presented as one of the strangest archaeological sites on Earth. Built more than 11,000 years ago, its enormous stone pillars and mysterious carvings helped create an enduring image of wandering hunter-gatherers gathering at a monumental ritual site before disappearing back into the landscape. Then archaeologists started finding something that…
Man Who Survived An 18-Day Coma Says Four Words Followed Him Into Heaven
Melissa McCarthy Has Reached Her Own Conclusion About the JonBenét Ramsey Case
Melissa McCarthy was just 26 when JonBenét Ramsey was found dead inside her family’s Boulder, Colorado, home in December 1996, but she still remembers exactly how she first encountered the story. She was standing in a grocery store when she saw Patsy Ramsey’s face on a tabloid cover and immediately formed an opinion about the…