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New findings by researchers from Simon Fraser University and the NAAM Foundation reveal that Curaçao was settled by humans up to 850 years earlier than previously believed, offering new insights into Caribbean pre-Columbian history and emphasizing the importance of archaeological fieldwork and community engagement. The image above depicts a rusty shipwreck on the island.New research establishes that humans occupied Curaçao between 5735 and 5600 calibrated years before present (cal BP). This finding suggests that the…

Daniel Craig was the latest actor to take on the license-to-kill secret agent James Bond. But with No Time to Die being Craig’s final James Bond film, it still leaves the question of who will take on these big shoes. Austin Butler gave an A+ reaction back when he pictured himself as the next James Bond, but all I can picture is the Ian Fleming character with an Elvis accent.Austin Butler truly has come a long way since his child star days on Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. Now that Elvis has shown the American actor’s…

"Are we alone?" It's the age-old question about life in the universe, one that astrobiologists and astronomers around the world are trying to answer.While Earth is the only planet in our solar system that has an abundance of life, astronomers and space agencies are looking in our own backyard for signs that we are not alone. And many believe that the best places to search are the icy moons around two of the biggest planets, Jupiter and Saturn.Currently, there are seven bodies in the outer solar system that are believed to…

The stone tool was glued into a handle made of liquid bitumen with the addition of 55 percent ochre. It is no longer sticky and can be handled easily. Credit: Patrick SchmidtAnalysis of tools that are 40,000 years old has revealed a surprisingly sophisticated level of construction.A team of researchers has found that Neanderthals crafted stone tools using a sophisticated multi-component glue. This discovery, the oldest known example of such an advanced adhesive in Europe, indicates that these early human relatives…

New research sheds light on temperature and stress levels at a plate boundary in northern Honshu, Japan. Credit: Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC Temperature and shear stress are two influential variables that affect faulting and seismicity in subduction zones, where tectonic plates converge. Yet because earthquakes originate tens of kilometers below Earth's surface at plate boundaries, the effects of…

Our world’s coral reefs are much larger than we previously believed. According to a report shared on The Conversation by Mitchell Lyons, a postdoctoral research fellow at The University of Queensland, and Stuart Phinn, a Professor of Geography at The University of Queensland, researchers found 64,000 square kilometers of coral reef we didn’t know existed.The ground-breaking discovery brings the total size of our planet’s shallow reefs to roughly 348,000 square kilometers. That’s roughly the size of Germany, the…

Chief Scientist Frieder Klein and Deep Rover Pilot Alan Scot exploring a submerged carbonate platform. Credit: Novus Select Studying a rock is like reading a book. The rock has a story to tell, says Frieder Klein, an associate scientist in the Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). The rocks…

Nothing Phone (2a) fake vs likely real design: spot the differenceFake design: The Nothing Phone (2a) renders shared by Smartprix in collaboration with OnLeaks are inaccurate, as confirmed by Steve aka OnLeaks himself. In it, we see the rear cameras — still vertical and placed directly on the back panel. The patterns on the back also appear different, and the Glyph Interface’s omission is glaring. However, as reputed tipster Evan Blass commented on OnLeaks’s Phone (2a) render, it wasn’t the “standard Foxconn-sourced,…

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have discovered the superior colliculus, an evolutionary preserved brain area, plays a more significant role in vision than previously understood. Their studies with mice show that this area, along with the visual cortex, is crucial for distinguishing objects from their background, suggesting its potential importance in humans, especially in cases of blindness with double lesions in the visual cortex.Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience found…

A new study on human temperature perception demonstrated a consistent sensitivity to temperature differences among participants. This research, integral to the Grounded Cognition theory, has important implications for energy-efficient building climate control and is part of broader research efforts at terraXcube, which supports various scientific fields.Research conducted in Eurac Research’s terraXcube, an extreme environment simulator, indicates that the human sensitivity to temperature variations is less than one degree…