A STUDY AT THE MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC SITE OF NEUMARK – NORD, LOCATED NEAR LEIPZIG, GERMANY, HAS PROVIDED THE FIRST INDISPUTABLE PROOF OF ELEPHANT HUNTING BY EARLY HUMANS. Neumark – Nord was first discovered in the 1980’s, revealing the remains of at least 70 straight-tusked elephants over a deca...
The latest shot in the space telescope’s portfolio is a piercing gaze into a distant part of the sky. Webb launched from French Guiana in December 2021; its scientific observations of the cosmos began in July. Webb has imaged distant galaxies, exoplanets, and even shed new light on worlds in our l...
Researchers at UCL and the University of Cambridge have discovered a new type of ice that more closely resembles liquid water than any other known ices and that may rewrite our understanding of water and its many anomalies. The newly discovered ice is amorphous—that is, its molecules are in a diso...