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Siberian prison engulfed in flames amid riot
A penal colony in Siberia was engulfed in flames following a riot and accusations of brutality at the site.
Sarah Hyland, Wells Adams dress as 'Tiger King' stars in Instagram photos
"Modern Family" actress Sarah Hyland and her fiance, Wells Adams, dressed as "Tiger King" stars Carole Baskin and Joe Exotic in a series of Instagram photos.
How 'Animal Crossing' was built to be ubiquitous in coronavirus time — back in 2001
It's no accident that "Animal Crossing: New Horizons" is resonating now. Built to ward off loneliness in 2001, the franchise is made for the pandemic moment.
New signs suggest coronavirus was in California far earlier than anyone knew
Coronavirus might have been in California as early as December. The timing had dire consequences
Op-Ed: A chimpanzee's journey helps my son cope with the coronavirus lockdown in Paris
A touching video of Jane Goodall releasing a chimp into the wild makes my son sob. His tears may reveal frustration over our coronavirus-altered lives.
'It's unlike anything I have ever seen': A deadly week across America
This week was one of the deadliest the nation has ever seen. These are the stories of front-line workers and victims across America.
Marines deploy to support Roosevelt carrier, Esper open to reinstating fired commander
The Navy has deployed a team of medical professionals to Guam to augment efforts to manage an outbreak of the novel coronavirus on the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
40,000 year old evidence that Neanderthal's wove string
Contrary to popular belief, Neanderthals were no less technologically advanced than Homo sapiens. Researchers have discovered the first evidence of cord making, dating back more than 40,000 years, on a...
An ancient bit of yarn suggests Neanderthals were super crafty
Twisting up fibers is more complex than it seems. (S. Deryck/)When you think about how Neanderthals spent their days, the first thing that comes to mind is probably pretty far off from,...
XFL suspends operations, lays off employees
The XFL suspended operations and laid off nearly all of their employees Friday amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Brown hares and chickens were treated as 'gods,' not food when they arrived in Britain, research shows
Archaeological evidence shows that the first brown hares and chickens to arrive in Britain were buried with care and intact. There is no signs of butchery on bones examined and...
Coronavirus: What are the chances we'll change our behavior in the aftermath?
The world as we know it may never be the same. The global economy has slowed, people are living in isolation and the death toll from an invisible killer is...
Examining how early humans responded to climate change
Kevin Uno is a paleoclimatologist and Lamont Assistant Research Professor at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory who studies the role climate change plays in human population dynamics and migration.
New York City to begin burying COVID-19 victims at Hart Island
New York City will soon begin burying the unclaimed bodies of COVID-19 victims at the city's public cemetery on Hart Island as the city's death toll from the virus hits...
Ancient string provides further evidence of Neanderthals talents
Neanderthals used plant fibers to create string more than 40,000 years ago at a site in France where they hunted reindeer, further evidence according to scientists of the ingenuity and...
Ancient teeth from Peru hint now-extinct monkeys crossed Atlantic from Africa
Four fossilized monkey teeth discovered deep in the Peruvian Amazon provide new evidence that more than one group of ancient primates journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa. The teeth...
Two primate lineages crossed the Atlantic millions of years ago
Four fossilized molar teeth excavated in Peru’s Amazon basin come from a now-extinct lineage of primates that rafted across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa and reached the inland site between around 35 million...
Fungus application thwarts major soybean pest
The soybean cyst nematode sucks the nutrients out of soybean roots, causing more than $1 billion in soybean yield losses in the U.S. each year. A new study finds that...
Ear's inner secrets revealed with new technology
What does it actually look like deep inside our ears? This has been very difficult to study as the inner ear is protected by the hardest bone in the body....
Ancient teeth from Peru hint now-extinct monkeys crossed Atlantic from Africa
Four fossilized monkey teeth discovered deep in the Peruvian Amazon provide new evidence that more than one group of ancient primates journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa, according to...
Response to Comment on "Late Upper Paleolithic occupation at Coopers Ferry, Idaho, USA, ~16,000 years ago"
Manning builds an inappropriate Bayesian age model to assert that the initial occupation at Cooper’s Ferry began only ~15,935 ± 75 to 15,130 ± 20 cal yr B.P., suggesting that...
A parapithecid stem anthropoid of African origin in the Paleogene of South America
Phylogenetic evidence suggests that platyrrhine (or New World) monkeys and caviomorph rodents of the Western Hemisphere derive from source groups from the Eocene of Afro-Arabia, a landmass that was ~1500...
Mysteries of decorated ostrich eggs in British Museum revealed
Five Easter-egg sized decorated ostrich eggs in the British Museum are the subject of a new study.
I'm a South Korean adoptee in America. And I feel more invisible than ever
From "Parasite's" Oscar to the coronavirus fight, South Korea's successes leave an adoptee feeling "erased" by both her birth country and the U.S.
Stone Age String Strengthens Case for Neandertal Smarts
Our extinct cousins had fiber technology. Stop calling them dumb already -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Fungus application thwarts major soybean pest, study finds
The soybean cyst nematode sucks the nutrients out of soybean roots, causing more than $1 billion in soybean yield losses in the U.S. each year. A new study finds that...
Researchers find different evolutionary pathways for two subtypes of contact binaries
Secondary components of W UMa-type contact binaries exhibit an excess in radius and luminosity. Based on these two properties, Ph.D. student ZHANG Xudong, Prof. QIAN Shengbang, and Dr. LIAO Wenping...
This is the oldest known string. It was made by a Neandertal
In a new twist on Neandertals’ Stone Age accomplishments, our close evolutionary relatives wound bark fibers into strings that could have been used to make clothes, rope, nets and other practical but perishable...