To avoid a significant increase in the risk of food insecurity, environmental targets to limit excess nitrogen necessitate the large-scale deployment of dedicated nitrogen mitigation strategies. Without these measures, people’s access to dietary energy would…

Since August 20, 2007, a large number of human feet have washed up on the US and Canadian shores of the Salish Sea. OK, any amount of human feet washing up on the beach is…

What happens if you build 15 buildings quickly, but then can’t finish them after seven years? Everything is obliterated in a single apocalyptic blast. According to Mehr News Agency, 15 skyscrapers in Kunming, China, were…

Adolescence is a difficult time, and the COVID-19 pandemic is making it even more difficult. Even in the greatest of circumstances, teenagers who are coping with personal or school issues may find it difficult to…

A new study by Yale undergraduate Chase Doran Brownstein describes two dinosaurs that lived around 85 million years ago in Appalachia, a once-isolated land mass that now comprises much of the eastern United States: an…

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According to genomes gathered from archaeological sites around the Aegean, the first civilizations to build monumental palaces and urban centers in Europe were more genetically homogeneous than expected. By the Middle Bronze Age, people from…

A new study provides the earliest evidence to date of ancient humans using flames to significantly alter entire ecosystems. The study combines archaeological evidence from dense clusters of stone artifacts dating back 92,000 years with…

A new optical dating technique was used by researchers to directly constrain the age of prehistoric stone artifacts from an archaeological site in southern Tibet. The discoveries date back more than 5,000 years, making them…

The Noceto Vasca Votiva is a one-of-a-kind wood structure discovered in 2005 on a small hill in northern Italy. The in-ground structure, constructed primarily of oak and slightly larger than a backyard swimming pool, has…