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Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Our ancestors probably used a wide range of plant-based tools that have since been lost to history. Now we're finally getting a glimpse of this Botanic Age

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The real reason VAR infuriates football fans and how to fix it

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:10:00 +0000

The controversies surrounding football’s video assistant referee (VAR) system highlight our troubled relationship with uncertainty – and point to potential solutions

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Jets of liquid bounce off hot surfaces without ever touching them

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:51:32 +0000

Droplets of fluid have been known to hover above a hot surface, but a new experiment suggests the same can happen to tiny jets of liquid too

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This robot can build anything you ask for out of blocks

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 15:00:19 +0000

An AI-assisted robot can listen to spoken commands and assemble 3D objects such as chairs and tables out of reusable building blocks

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Orbital wins the Booker prize: “I see it as a kind of space pastoral"

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:01:06 +0000

Samantha Harvey has won the UK's top fiction prize for a novel that takes place over 24 hours on the International Space Station

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Mammoth tusk tool may have been used to make ropes 37,000 years ago

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 19:00:30 +0000

Experiments with a replica suggest that a piece of mammoth ivory with carved holes found in a cave in Germany was used by ancient humans to make ropes

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Our human ancestors often ate each other, and for surprising reasons

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Fossil evidence shows that humans have been practising cannibalism for a million years. Now, archaeologists are discovering that some of the time they did it to honour their dead

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Mammoth carcass was scavenged by ancient humans and sabre-toothed cats

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:00:10 +0000

A southern mammoth skeleton found in Spain bears cut marks from stone tools and bite marks from carnivore teeth, suggesting that both hominins and felids feasted on its meat

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Ancient people carved mysterious symbols near dinosaur footprints

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 10:28:46 +0000

A unique site in Brazil features rock carvings closely associated with dinosaur tracks, suggesting prehistoric people saw the footprints as meaningful

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Stone Age blades could have been used for butchery, not just hunting

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 12:40:06 +0100

A modern butchery experiment using replicas of Stone Age tools raises new questions about how often prehistoric peoples hunted large animals such as bison or mammoths

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Australia’s Indigenous people were making pottery over 2000 years ago

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:00:58 +0100

An excavation on an island in the Coral Sea shows that Indigenous Australians were producing ceramics long before the arrival of Europeans

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Haunting photos bring fictional female explorers to life

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 03 Jul 2024 19:00:00 +0100

Tonje Bøe Birkeland's photographs imagine the exploits of fictional female scientists and adventurers from the past

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Stonehenge’s altar stone was brought all the way from Scotland

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 17:00:44 +0100

The nearest source of the altar stone at the centre of Stonehenge has finally been identified – and it is at least 750 kilometres away in north-east Scotland

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Rachel Kushner’s Booker-shortlisted Creation Lake is top-notch

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:15:00 +0100

For an undercover operative, Sadie Smith takes unnecessary risks as she infiltrates an eco-activist group. Why? And where do the Neanderthals fit into Creation Lake, Rachel Kushner's Booker-shortlisted climate fiction novel? Emily H. Wilson loved finding out

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Ancient Mesopotamian clay seals offer clues to the origin of writing

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:01:09 +0000

Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the symbols used were carried over into proto-writing

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Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Our ancestors probably used a wide range of plant-based tools that have since been lost to history. Now we're finally getting a glimpse of this Botanic Age

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Need Advice on Medical Pot for Cancer Care? Don't Ask Local Dispensary

By www.medicinenet.com
Published On :: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 00:00:00 PDT

Title: Need Advice on Medical Pot for Cancer Care? Don't Ask Local Dispensary
Category: Health News
Created: 8/17/2022 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/18/2022 12:00:00 AM

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Work Worries Keep Lots of Americans Awake Sunday Nights

By www.medicinenet.com
Published On :: Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 PDT

Title: Work Worries Keep Lots of Americans Awake Sunday Nights
Category: Health News
Created: 8/1/2022 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/1/2022 12:00:00 AM

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C-Section Antibiotics Show No Link to Asthma in Childhood

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Published On :: Fri, 20 May 2022 00:00:00 PDT

Title: C-Section Antibiotics Show No Link to Asthma in Childhood
Category: Health News
Created: 5/20/2022 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/20/2022 12:00:00 AM

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Why Treatment Helps Some Asthma Patients More Than Others

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Published On :: Wed, 1 Jun 2022 00:00:00 PDT

Title: Why Treatment Helps Some Asthma Patients More Than Others
Category: Health News
Created: 6/1/2022 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 6/1/2022 12:00:00 AM

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Is Graves’ Disease the Same as Thyrotoxicosis?

By www.medicinenet.com
Published On :: Fri, 8 Jul 2022 00:00:00 PDT

Title: Is Graves’ Disease the Same as Thyrotoxicosis?
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 7/8/2022 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 7/8/2022 12:00:00 AM

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Thyroid Storm vs Thyrotoxicosis: Differences

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Published On :: Fri, 8 Jul 2022 00:00:00 PDT

Title: Thyroid Storm vs Thyrotoxicosis: Differences
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 7/8/2022 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 7/8/2022 12:00:00 AM

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