Rockshelter Discoveries Show Neandertals Were a Lot like Us
Our much maligned cousins made sophisticated ornaments and probably had language — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Shattered ‘alphabet soup’ iceberg flushed a lot of fresh water into the ocean
A rogue iceberg that drifted dangerously close to an Antarctic penguin population in 2020 and 2021 released billions of tons of fresh water into the ocean during its breakup. A new study, based on satellite data, tracks the aftermath of the once-mighty iceberg A-68a, which held the title of world’s largest iceberg for more than three years … Read more
A New Study Calculates The Number of Black Holes in The Universe. It’s a Lot
Because we can’t see black holes, it’s hard to know exactly how many are out there in the big, wide Universe. But that doesn’t mean we have no means of trying to figure it out. Stellar-mass black holes are the collapsed cores of dead massive stars, and new research incorporating how these stars and binaries … Read more