A trove of buried human history
Among the remains found at Sunghir, where funeral rituals ranged from the ornate to the desultory, the dead with physical deformities got extravagant treatment Lea Surugue | SAPIENS Around 34,000…
Language cues to human migration
Comparing linguistic features of languages and possible sources of origin provides a history of when and how people moved across continents Nicole Creanza, Vanderbilt University and André Ché Sherriah, University…
How we know that Neanderthals were artists
Two researchers explain how they concluded that Neanderthals were not all that different from the modern humans who replaced them Chris Standish, University of Southampton and Alistair Pike, University of…
Andromeda is younger than Earth
Simulations based on new data suggest that our Milky Way’s sister galaxy is the result of a merging of two star systems at least 1.8 billion years ago Matt Williams,…
More power to the magnesium battery
It is cheap, abundant and carries a hefty charge. Now the metal has been yoked to vanadium to better harness its capability P Rajendran Build a better battery and tech…