About 11,000 years ago, humans made a major transition from hunting and gathering to farming. This change, known as the Neolithic Revolution, dramatically changed the way we eat. For decades, scientists thought that pre-agricultural human groups consumed too much animal protein. However, the scarcity of well-preserved human remains from Pleistocene sites has always hampered analysis.… Read More »
From time to time, an epidemic emerges that dramatically changes human society. The Black Death (1347 – 1351) was one of them; The Spanish flu of 1918 was another. Now there is COVID-19. Archaeologists have long been studying diseases in past populations. To do this, they consider a wide range of evidence: layout, graves, grave… Read More »
Bill Anders, one of the first people to fly to the moon as an Apollo 8 astronaut in 1968, died on Friday, June 7, when the vintage plane he was piloting crashed off the coast of the San Juan Islands northwest of Washington. Situation. In a statement to the media, it was confirmed by his… Read More »
Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, Sign up for free here. Events in space often do not develop like in the movies. But a spacecraft’s journey can offer awe-inspiring views and surprising moments that are more spectacular than fiction. SpaceX placed… Read More »
Editor’s Note: Pamela Appea is a New York-based journalist covering health, science, and intersectionality. The views expressed here are his own. To read more views on CNN Asthma shortened my mother’s life and sickened each of my two children at various points in their lives. During a relatively short period of my life, a few… Read More »
Editor’s Note: Pamela Appea is a New York-based journalist covering health, science, and intersectionality. The views expressed here are his own. To read more views on CNN Asthma shortened my mother’s life and sickened each of my two children at various points in their lives. During a relatively short period of my life, a few… Read More »
It has been 34 years since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into the harsh and unforgiving environment of Earth orbit. It currently sits about 320 miles (515 kilometers) above our planet and is subject to solar radiation, freezing temperatures and micrometeoroid effects while delivering breathtaking and textbook-changing images. Universe to us. Thirty-four years under… Read More »
The strange behavior of the massive merging galaxy cluster could be explained by the collision of dark matter, the universe’s most mysterious substance, with itself. However, the currently most favored model of cosmology is the cold dark matter (CDM) model, which posits that dark matter, which is virtually invisible because it does not interact with… Read More »
SEATTLE (AP) — William AndersThe former Apollo 8 astronaut, who took the iconic “Earthrise” photograph in 1968, showing the planet as a shadowy blue marble from space, died Friday when the plane he was piloting alone crashed into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90 years old. His son,… Read More »
The Sun warms the Earth, making it habitable for humans and animals. But that’s not the only thing it does, and it affects a much wider area of space. The heliosphere, the area of space affected by the Sun, is a hundred times larger than the distance from the Sun to the Earth. The Sun… Read More »