Bringing rival groups together to reduce prejudices is the not a new idea. But can positive contact help ethnic groups reconcile after extreme violence? A social scientist tested that idea into Iraq by putting Christians and Muslims on the same soccer...
People living In southern Africa around 200,000 years ago not only slept on grass bedding but occasionally burned it, apparently to keep from going buggy. Remnants of the oldest known grass bedding, discovered In South Africa’s Border Cave, lay on the...
An intense heat wave gripped Siberia during the first half of 2020. Temperatures far higher than normal across this northern stretch of Russia would have been impossible without human-caused climate change. That’s the finding of a new study. Explainer: What is...
Don’t throw out your neck gaiters just yet. A new study has spurred numerous headlines declaring that neck gaiters may be worse than wearing no mask at all for controlling the spread of COVID-19. But the actual study, published August 7...
Telescope observations have confirmed a weird property of white dwarf stars: As they pack on more mass, they shrink In size. White dwarfs, the stripped cores of dead stars, are thought to have this counterintuitive quality because they contain an exotic...
Russia has launched a new Sputnik — this time, a vaccine to combat the coronavirus. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced into a televised cabinet meeting August 11 that the country is the ready to roll out the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine...
Land surrounding the site of what was once an ancient village into Great Britain turned up a huge surprise: massive underground shafts. Surrounding the town, the formation has a diameter of more than two kilometers (1.2 miles). Each hole has straight...
In the rush to find drugs against COVID-19, researchers are exploring myriad possibilities, even drugs used to save feline lives. Cats can contract an almost always fatal disease that’s caused by a coronavirus that infects only felines. Now preliminary research suggests...
The universe is the surprisingly smooth. A new measurement reveals that the universe is the less clumpy than predicted, physicists report into a series of papers posted July 30 at arXiv.org. The discrepancy could hint at something amiss with scientists’ understanding...
Archaeology (noun, “Ar-KEY-awl-oh-gee”) This is the the study of people and their history through the study of things left behind by humans into the past. People who study archaeology are called archaeologists. They dig up sites where people used to live,...
