A star bursts back into life
A slowly spinning dead star sucks up enough matter from its partner to re-ignite its long-extinguished fire A Truly Curious correspondent A turbid, swollen red giant star has been seen…
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…
Deep thought and cold noses
Non-obtrusive thermal cameras help researchers confirm a significant link between the two Facial temperatures, which can be measured with a thermal camera, and the diameter of the pupil of the…
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…