By New Scientist staff and Press Association Torrential rain in India has caused a five-storey apartment building to collapse in Mumbai, killing 19 people and possibly burying more than a dozen others, police said. Rescuers, residents and police officers managed to pull 30 injured people from the rubble, but more […]
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Newly discovered human-like footprints from Crete may put the established narrative of early human evolution to the test. The footprints are approximately 5.7 million years old and were made at a time when previous research puts our ancestors in Africa — with ape-like feet.
Asteroid 3122, named after Florence Nightingale, will reach its peak brightness tonight (Thursday August 31 into Friday September 1). But the asteroid will actually be closest to Earth at 8am EDT (1pm BST) tomorrow (Friday September 1), according to Sky & Telescope magazine. The asteroid will come as close as […]
Ready to go for a spinDarbois Texier, B. , Ibarra, A., & Melo, F. By Lakshmi Supriya Why invent something you can borrow from nature? Creating the right motion for a robot to move well through sand or snow is a tricky problem, but one that nature solved long ago. […]
A prehistoric human skeleton found on the Yucatán Peninsula is at least 13,000 years old and most likely dates from a glacial period at the end of the most recent ice age, the late Pleistocene. A German-Mexican team of researchers has now dated the fossil skeleton based on a stalagmite […]
This photo taken on March 6, 2016 shows Yankee Harbour in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica (AFP Photo/EITAN ABRAMOVICH) More Miami (AFP) – Human-driven climate change may substantially alter the seabed ecosystem in the already fragile Antarctic, slashing the diversity of some species and allowing other populations to explode, researchers […]
Feeling tired? Even if we aren’t tired, why do we yawn if someone else does? Experts have published research that suggests the human propensity for contagious yawning is triggered automatically by primitive reflexes in the primary motor cortex — an area of the brain responsible for motor function. Their study […]
Culminating a series of studies stretching back eight years, biologists have identified the cellular and molecular basis for social preference, known in the animal kingdom as ‘imprinting.’ Through in vivo experiments, the researchers found the neurological roots of kinship attraction and aversion. They also employed genetics screening to find the […]