Two different human species almost certainly encountered each other on the banks of a Kenyan lake 1.5 million years ago

Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were nearby neighbors some 1.5 million years ago. The footprints were left in the mud by…

New map of the universe uses gravitational waves to reveal hidden black holes and cosmic structure

Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav, Swinburne University of Technology and South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) An international study led by astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology has created the most…

Five new papers highlight cancer inequities, challenges and opportunities in South Asia

South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries — Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka — are shown in blue. Credit: Created with mapchart.net A…

Archaeologists find a vaulted structure beneath earthquake rubble

Archaeologists are conducting a rescue excavation following the discovery of a vaulted structure in Antakya, Türkiye. The structure was discovered beneath the debris of a two-story house on Kurtuluş Street…

3D printing approach for shape-changing materials means better biomedical, energy, robotics devices

Did Venus ever have oceans to support life, or was it ‘born hot’?

Scientists have poured cold water on the idea that Venus could once have supported life. The disappointing revelation emerged from the fact it appears water oceans could never have existed…

Physics experiment proves patterns in chaos in peculiar quantum realm

How Alcohol Increases Pain Tolerance, and Aggression

Summary: Alcohol not only raises pain tolerance but also amplifies aggression, according to a new study. Researchers found that participants who drank alcohol had higher pain thresholds and were more…

AI can predict involuntary admissions and pave way for prevention in psychiatric services

Model performance of the XGBoost model in the test set. (a) Receiver operating characteristics curve. AUROC, area under the receiver operating characteristics curve. (b) Confusion matrix. PPR, positive predictive rate;…

Smallest walking robot makes microscale measurements