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Mars is out; the moon is in. And this time, we may be going there to stay.On Tuesday (March 24), NASA administrator Jared Isaacman announced new plans to build a…
A U.S. judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic, the latest turn in the Claude maker’s high-stakes fight with the military over AI safety on the battlefield.…
Two Neanderthals present at the same cave site 10 millennia apart were distant relatives, a tiny 110,000-year-old bone fragment from the Altai Mountains in Siberia reveals. The fragment has also…
An illustration of Masripithecus moghraensis, an early Miocene ape. (Image credit: Mauricio Antón)The discovery of an enigmatic ape’s 18 million year-old fossils in Egypt hints that the ancestors of all…
When it comes to successful fertilization, zero gravity means zero game, a new study suggests. When looking at sperm and eggs in simulated microgravity, scientists found that this environment hampered…
Aging may “erase” the epigenetic markers that control gene expression in the brain, and this may snowball to cause unintended consequences, a new mouse study suggests.Tiny chemical messages attached to…
Today’s top story A landmark ruling could permanently change how social media sites run. (Image credit: Wally Skalij via Getty Images)The social media giants Meta and Google have been held…
For the first time ever, an image of a Roman woman battling a beast in an arena has been identified.While ancient texts say that some women battled beasts in the…
Archaeologists in Mexico have unearthed a square stone altar used for human sacrifices during the Toltec Empire more than 1,000 years ago.The altar, human bones, obsidian knives and ceramic vessels…
The tenacious families of social media victims celebrated the landmark verdict Wednesday that determined Meta and Google design their platforms to be addictive — but insisted that the “war is…