Discover traces the ancestry of a persistent sexually transmitted disease, and finds that the human papillomavirus (HPV) that causes cervical cancer probably came from modern humans… Read the rest “HPV came from Neanderthal nookie.”
The Indonesian jungle does not seem like the best environment to preserve works of art, but, as The New York Times reports, for more than 40,000 years, these ochre animal representations… Read the rest “The world’s oldest animal picture is on a cave wall in Borneo.”
Nature pushes the date of the very first hot cocoa back by a millennium, with evidence of the dawn of chocolate in 3,300 BCE:
… Read the rest “We were consuming chocolate 5,300 years ago.”Until now, the oldest archaeological evidence for cacao (Theobroma
This is the earth under a stream inside a forest in Iowa, with all the trees and the water digitally removed. Or rather, with just the earth showing – thanks to the radar-like… Read the rest “Science Art: Lidar-derived digital surface and elevation models of a stream channel, by the USGS”
Science News looks back at the shallow coastal waters of eons past, when the wading was comfortably uncrowded and the first creatures with spinal cords began to take shape:
… Read the rest “The very first vertebrates came from the beach.”Scientists have
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