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A team of archaeologists is questioning the 14,500-year-old date of Monte Verde in Chile, one of the oldest human occupations in the Americas, and proposing a…

What counts as an addiction — should compulsive shopping or gaming qualify?Researchers are currently debating whether to classify problematic behaviors as addictions in the next edition…

A 2024 study that claimed to have discovered an entirely new source of oxygen in the deep sea — dubbed “dark oxygen” — was flawed, inconsistent…

A close-up of the skeleton shows a nail placed on top of the chest (just left of the spine). (Image credit: Special Superintendency of Rome)Small iron…

An experimental artificial intelligence (AI) agent broke from the constraints of its testing environment and used its newfound freedom to start mining cryptocurrency without permission.Dubbed ROME,…

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the birth of one of the universe’s most powerful magnets, or magnetars, at the heart of an unusually bright…

While spring is a lovely time of year to look forward to, for some, it brings about mixed feelings because their hay fever symptoms increase as…

While full-frame cameras dominate the conversation for astrophotography, many APS-C and Micro Four Thirds (MFT) systems punch far above their weight, and the smaller sensor sizes…

A marble fragment from the Acropolis of Athens has been found in the remains of a ship that sank in 1802, according to Greece’s Ministry of…

A “potentially hazardous” asteroid contains all of the “letters” that make up DNA, suggesting that these key ingredients for life may be common in the solar…