Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. Stonehenge’s Altar Stone, located at the heart of the ancient monument in southern England, may have been transported more than 700 kilometres (430 miles) from the site in what is now northeastern Scotland around 5,000… Read More »
New Delhi — Scientists say the zealous use of a painkiller by Indian farmers for their cattle in the 1990s has led to the unintentional deaths of half a million people and huge economic losses — not from any harm done to the cattle themselves, but from the deaths of millions of vultures, which historically… Read More »
Sex and gender are often confused or equated in everyday conversation, and most American adults believe that a person’s gender is determined by the sex they were assigned at birth. But a new study of nearly 5,000 9- and 10-year-olds found that sex and gender map to drastically different parts of the brain. The study’s… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. According to archaeologists, a small stone bottle discovered in southeastern Iran contained a red cosmetic that was likely used as lip balm around 4,000 years ago. The rare find is “possibly the oldest” lipstick sample… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. A megastructure found in the Baltic Sea may represent one of the oldest known hunting structures used in the Stone Age, changing what is known about how hunter-gatherers lived about 11,000 years ago. Researchers and… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. A megastructure found in the Baltic Sea may represent one of the oldest known hunting structures used in the Stone Age, changing what is known about how hunter-gatherers lived about 11,000 years ago. Researchers and… Read More »
If temperature-tracking sea sponges are to be trusted, climate change has progressed much further than scientists predicted. A new study using ocean organisms called sclerosponges to measure average global temperature shows that the world has already warmed by about 1.7 degrees Celsius in the last 300 years; This is at least half a degree Celsius… Read More »
Five patients in the United Kingdom have developed Alzheimer’s disease, which appears to be the result of contaminated injections they received as children decades ago, according to a new study that may change how scientists think about the causes of dementia and cause concern in patients. received the same treatment. All five patients received human… Read More »
Parts of Europe could face “devastating” economic losses due to rising oceans in coming decades, researchers say. A new study shows that in the worst-case scenario, emissions And sea level riseThe European Union and the United Kingdom could lose €872 billion (about $950 billion) by the end of this century; many regions within them could… Read More »
Archaeologists working deep in the Amazon rainforest have discovered a vast network of cities dating back 2,500 years. Highly structured pre-Hispanic settlements with wide avenues and long, straight roads, plazas and clusters of monumental platforms have been found in Amazonian Ecuador’s Upano Valley, in the eastern foothills of the Andes, according to a study published… Read More »