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The immune systems of people who are indigenous to the island of New Guinea may be partly shaped by DNA from an extinct human species, a newly published study says. Thousands of years ago, the ancestors of modern humans met and mated with Neandertals—and also with their close cousins and contemporaries, Denisovans. Though both Neandertals and Denisovans later went extinct (with Denisovans possibly sticking around until as recently as 15,000 years ago), billions of people around the world still carry the proof of these…

What is Poverty?Poverty is a particular issue that affects many countries around the world. There can not be a universally acknowledged definition of poverty. Broadly it can be said that:Poverty refers to a state in which an individual is unable to fulfil even the basic necessities of life. The minimum requirements include food, clothing, shelter, education, and health facilities.A nation suffers from a cycle of poverty when a large portion of the population is deprived of even the most necessities of life for an extended…

Michael Morrow, left, and San Anselmo resident Jonathan Knight look over historical documents in “Invented Before You Were Born.” (Courtesy of West8th, LLC) Le Datta Denise Grimes, a historian and educator, co-produced “Invented Before You Were Born.” (Courtesy of West8th, LLC) A scene of “Invented Before You Were Born.” (Courtesy of West8th, LLC) San Anselmo resident Jonathan Knight directed and produced “Invented Before You Were Born.” (Courtesy of West8th, LLC) When Rachel Knight started looking into her family’s…

One of the best gifts you can give someone, especially in today’s connected world, is a new iPhone or iPad. After all, these are devices that come equipped with iOS or iPadOS, respectively, which are fairly intuitive and easy to use for most people. For the most part, getting an iPhone or iPad set up the way you want it is a simple affair. However, if you’re giving an older person in your family a new iPhone or iPad, it may prove a bit more difficult since they may not be fully tech-literate. You know the drill —…

Life reconstruction of Scleromochlus taylori by Gabriel Ugueto. Credit: Gabriel UgeuettoOver 100 years ago a tiny <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>Triassic</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>The Triassic is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.9 million years ago, to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.3 million years ago. It is the first and shortest…

Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe crypto market fell with stocks after the highly anticipated jobs report showed the labor market is still tight and could keep the Federal Reserve on course to raise rates aggressively.The price of bitcoin fell 3.3% to $19,380.74, according to Coin Metrics. Ether fell 2.7% to $1,322.40.On Friday the Labor Department reported that the U.S. economy added 263,000 jobs in September, compared with the Dow Jones estimate of 275,000, and that the unemployment rate fell to 3.5% from…

Restaurants are taking on grocery stores over value, contending that eating out can be a better deal than cooking at home.They have some recent data on their side. Consumer prices at grocery stores and restaurants increased 13.1% and 7.6%, respectively, year-over-year in July, according to the Labor Department—the biggest inflationary gap between grocery stores and restaurants since the 1970s. The unusual pricing dynamic has given ammunition to fast-food chains and sit-down restaurants, which are increasingly touting…

If you visited the oceans more than 500 million years ago, you’d find yourself in an alien world. Beings with quilted folds of soft tissue sat on the seabed like rugs, and life forms that looked like fronded plants but were actually animals made anchor on the ocean floor. But one organism might be somewhat familiar: a stalked, cuplike creature with waving tentacles resembling those of a jellyfish. The newly described fossil of this organism, named Auroralumina attenboroughii after…

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A strange creature that sloshed about in Earth's oceans over half a billion years ago seems to be the earliest vertebrate relative we've found to date.They're called yunnanozoans, dating to the Early Cambrian some 518 million years ago. Cartilaginous features found in their fossilized remains are comparable to modern vertebrates, paleontologists have discovered.  This suggests that the animals are stem vertebrates, an extinct sister-group to the group from which modern vertebrates are descended."Pharyngeal arches are a…