11,000 Years of Designer Sheep
According to a new exhibition in Amsterdam, centuries of human intervention turned the animal into “a wool-producing machine ...
New Scientist12h
Most Europeans may have had dark skin until less than 3000 years ago
Ancient DNA from 348 individuals suggests that pale skin became the predominant characteristic of people living in Europe ...
New radiocarbon dates establish 6,000-year time span for human remains pulled from River Thames
Chronology efforts led by researchers at Natural History Museum, London, and Historic England have produced 30 new dates for ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN6h
Why Were All of These Bodies Buried Sitting Upright and Facing West More Than 2,000 Years Ago?
Archaeologists are still unraveling the mysteries of an unusual burial site in Dijon, France, which dates to between 450 and ...
Deep learning provides new view on 300 million years of brain evolution
In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define ...
Newser on MSN8h
Experts: In 10 Years' Time, Things on Earth Will Be Worse
Think things look dire now? It doesn't look like it's going to get better over the next decade, per the Atlantic Council, ...
New Demographic Reality Poses Challenges For Countries And Companies
Two-thirds of humanity now live in countries where fertility rates have fallen below replacement levels, posing a threat to ...
BBC20h
Identifying 2D shapes
Like with triangles, you can use this fact to find missing angles in a quadrilateral. Take a look at this shape. Let's work out the missing angle labelled 'd'. You know that all the angles in this ...