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400-Year-Old Sacrificed Guinea Pigs Wearing Colorful Earrings and Necklaces Discovered in Peru

An intriguing new discovery in Peru shows ritually sacrificed guinea pigs were decorated with colorful earrings and necklaces by 16th-century Incas—a finding that comes as a complete surprise to archaeologists. New research published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology describes an extraordinary discovery at the Tambo Viejo site in southern Peru. The Incas constructed several…

Human History George Dvorsky Apr 12

Turns Out, California’s Famous Winter Fog Was Mostly Thanks to Air Pollution

Google “California tule fog accident,” and you’ll discover how the Golden State’s notoriously thick, ground-level fog has caused a flurry of deadly car accidents in the Central Valley. The silent killer in all this, however, appears to be poor air quality, which can fuel the fog’s creation. A study recently published in the Journal of Geophysical…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Apr 11

Israel’s Beresheet Probe Crashes on the Moon

The Beresheet probe crash-landed on the Moon earlier today, dashing Israel’s hopes of becoming only the fourth country to land a functioning probe on the lunar surface. “We lost it,” said a SpaceIL official a few minutes after mission controllers lost contact with the Beresheet probe. “We failed to land the spacecraft.” The descent had…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Apr 11

New CDC Report Shows Autism Is Still on the Rise

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new report on autism spectrum disorder (ASD), released Thursday, offers little good news. It estimates that about one in every 59 children nationwide has the complex developmental disorder, a figure that seems unchanged from its previous estimate a year ago. But, for a few reasons, it’s likely that…

Health Ed Cara Apr 11

Final Results of NASA Twins Study Show How Scott Kelly Changed After a Year in Space

Last year, various media outlets fumbled their reporting of genuinely interesting research from NASA, one that hoped to start figuring out what happens to our bodies if we live in space for long periods of time. The study was a meticulous comparison of then 50-year-old astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent a year aboard the International…

Space & Spaceflight Ed Cara Apr 11

Watch Israel Make History as It Attempts to Land the Beresheet Probe on the Moon [Update: It Crashed]

Update 4:03 p.m. ET: Unfortunately, the SpaceIL team lost contact with the Beresheet probe. Details here. On Thursday afternoon, the Beresheet probe will attempt to land on the lunar surface. If all goes well, the achievement will make Israel just the fourth country to have placed a probe on the Moon. You can watch the…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Apr 11

Scientists Could Soon Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth—but Should They?

Bringing an extinct species back to life was once firmly in the realm of science fiction, but as genetic engineering advances rapidly, the prospect of a woolly mammoth again breathing and walking on Earth seems almost within reach. Before fully resurrecting the mammoth, synthetic biologists at the Revive and Restore project are working to resuscitate…

Biology Erin Biba Apr 11

The First Detailed Study of How Mice Behave in Space Reveals Strange, Coordinated Zooming

New research based on experiments done on the International Space Station shows that mice adapt quickly to microgravity conditions. Unexpectedly, however, some of the mice began to exhibit a rather curious circling behavior, zipping around the walls of their metal cage with reckless abandon. New research published today in Scientific Reports is providing the most…

Biology George Dvorsky Apr 11

Watch SpaceX Try to Stick the Landing of Three Booster Rockets During Today’s Falcon Heavy Launch

Update on Thursday, April 11 at 8:00 p.m.: A little more than a year after its test flight and one day after a scrubbed launch, SpaceX on Thursday successfully launched its Falcon Heavy rocket. The company also saw the successful triple landing of all three of its three boosters. Both CEO Elon Musk and NASA…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Apr 10

Why Doesn’t the Black Hole Image Look Like the One From Interstellar?

No one knew what a black hole looked like before today. Sure, we thought we knew, thanks to simulations and the now-famous black hole featured in the movie Interstellar. But today, scientists behind the Event Horizon Telescope unveiled an image of the 6.5-billion-solar-mass black hole at the center of the (relatively) nearby galaxy M87. And…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Apr 10

What We Learned From the First Black Hole Image

Today, scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope released a picture that will go down in scientific history: the first-ever image of a black hole. But there’s more to science than pretty pictures. Alongside the release, scientists dropped six papers documenting how they created the image and what they’ve already learned about the black hole at…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Apr 10

Unknown Species of Tiny Ancient Human Discovered in Philippine Cave

Scientists are reporting the discovery of a previously unknown species of ancient human that lived in the Philippines over 50,000 years ago. Evidence suggests the new species, named Homo luzonensis, was exceptionally tiny—and possibly even smaller than the famous Hobbit species uncovered on the island of Flores in 2004. The story of human evolution just…

Human History George Dvorsky Apr 10

Scientists Are Gearing Up to Drill Some of the Oldest Ice on the Planet

By trapping bubbles of atmosphere as it freezes, ice imprisons the climate secrets of Earth’s past. The trick is knowing how to find, and then recover, this buried treasure beneath miles of thick ice sheets in the first place. Having made stunning gains in the last few decades, ice core hunters are now poised to…

Earth Science Robin George Andrews Apr 10

Gaze Into the Abyss: The First-Ever Image of a Black Hole

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here: Scientists have presented the first-ever image of a black hole. The image shows the shadow of the black hole at the center of the galaxy M87, a massive galaxy in the Virgo galaxy cluster 55 million light-years away. Its mass is 6.5 billion times that of the Sun.…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Apr 10

DOJ Charges UK Firm With Conspiracy, Fraud Over Opioid Withdrawal Drug Suboxone Film

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday indicted British firm Indivior Plc, the manufacturer of the opioid craving and withdrawal drug Suboxone Film, with misleading doctors and government health programs into thinking the drug was safer and less addictive than it really is, Bloomberg reported. According to the U.S. Justice Department, the company even ran a “Here to…

Health Tom McKay Apr 10

A 99-Year-Old Woman Lived and Died Without Ever Knowing Her Organs Were in the Wrong Places

A 99-year-old woman in Oregon lived a long life with one of the world’s rarest and often fatal conditions: a body in which most of her major organs were on the wrong side. Even more amazingly, the woman remained blissfully unaware of her unusual predicament. It was only after medical students and their professor got…

Health Ed Cara Apr 9

Declassified U2 Spy Plane Photos Expose Hidden Archaeological Sites

During the Cold War, the United States flew U2 spy planes over Europe, the Middle East, and central eastern Asia in search of potential military targets. These missions inadvertently gathered historical information, which archaeologists are now using for scientific purposes. New research published last month in the science journal Advances in Archaeological Practice describes the…

Human History George Dvorsky Apr 9

The First Machine-Generated Book by a Scholarly Publisher Is a Boring Read

Amazon’s online book store is plagued with thousands of auto-generated ebooks crudely hacked together from other texts by shady authors” looking to make a quick buck. Most are unreadable, but it’s not always going to be that way. Springer Nature, a publisher serving the research community, just published its first book that was generated by…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 9

New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine

If using the law to corral antivaxxers doesn’t work at first, try, try again. At least, that seems to be the lesson learned by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. On Tuesday, he declared a state of emergency and mandated residents of the Williamsburg neighborhood, where an outbreak of measles has been raging since…

Health Ed Cara Apr 9

Intricate Skin Impressions Still Visible on ‘Exquisitely Preserved’ Dinosaur Footprints

During the Early Cretaceous, a small two-legged dinosaur walked across a stretch of fine-grained mud following a rainstorm. The resulting footprints became locked in stone, but unlike other fossilized dinosaur tracks, these 120-million-year-old fossils show skin impressions across the entire footprint, in what is considered an unprecedented discovery. Fossilized dinosaur footprints are fairly common in…

Biology George Dvorsky Apr 9

400-Year-Old Sacrificed Guinea Pigs Wearing Colorful Earrings and Necklaces Discovered in Peru

Turns Out, California’s Famous Winter Fog Was Mostly Thanks to Air Pollution

Israel’s Beresheet Probe Crashes on the Moon

New CDC Report Shows Autism Is Still on the Rise

Final Results of NASA Twins Study Show How Scott Kelly Changed After a Year in Space

Watch Israel Make History as It Attempts to Land the Beresheet Probe on the Moon [Update: It Crashed]

Scientists Could Soon Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth—but Should They?

The First Detailed Study of How Mice Behave in Space Reveals Strange, Coordinated Zooming

Watch SpaceX Try to Stick the Landing of Three Booster Rockets During Today’s Falcon Heavy Launch

Why Doesn’t the Black Hole Image Look Like the One From Interstellar?

What We Learned From the First Black Hole Image

Unknown Species of Tiny Ancient Human Discovered in Philippine Cave

Scientists Are Gearing Up to Drill Some of the Oldest Ice on the Planet

Gaze Into the Abyss: The First-Ever Image of a Black Hole

DOJ Charges UK Firm With Conspiracy, Fraud Over Opioid Withdrawal Drug Suboxone Film

A 99-Year-Old Woman Lived and Died Without Ever Knowing Her Organs Were in the Wrong Places

Declassified U2 Spy Plane Photos Expose Hidden Archaeological Sites

The First Machine-Generated Book by a Scholarly Publisher Is a Boring Read

New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine

Intricate Skin Impressions Still Visible on ‘Exquisitely Preserved’ Dinosaur Footprints

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