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Cut Marks on 125,000-Year-Old Bones Suggest Neanderthals Butchered Giant Elephants

Our extinct sister species was hunting and butchering big game, according to new research.

Whoa: Astronomers Find New Ring System in the Outer Solar System

Quaoar, a dwarf planet, has a ring system twice as far out as previously thought possible.

Huge-Jawed 'Terminator Pigs' Unfairly Painted as Predators, Researchers Say

Ancient entelodonts are routinely portrayed as brutal carnivores, but they probably kept to the same menu as today's pigs and peccaries.

Zoo Says Ape’s Mysterious Pregnancy Occurred Through a Glory Hole

Two years after wondering if their 12-year-old white-handed gibbon had pulled a Virgin Mary, zookeepers in Japan say they finally know how the ape got pregnant.

Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA Discovered in Ancient South Americans

Two archaeological sites in Brazil are revealing the genetic ancestry of some of the continent’s earliest humans.

Researchers Decrypt Coded Letters Written by Mary, Queen of Scots

The 445-year-old missives offer new details about Mary’s experience as a prisoner of Queen Elizabeth I.

Scientists Apparently Taught Brain Cells How to Play Pong

The experiments provide a proof of concept for computers that can one day harness the unique power of the brain, the scientists say.

How a Periodic Table of Brains Could Revolutionize Neuroscience

Between your ears sits perhaps the most complex piece of biological machinery on the planet: an all-in-one computer, simulator, and creation device that operates out of a squishy, folded gray mass. And scientists aren’t quite sure how it works.

Researchers Breed Naturally Flame-Resistant Cotton

Burn tests showed that new strains of cotton were able to self-extinguish after being set on fire.