Close scrutiny of a recent image from the Webb Space Telescope revealed some questionable punctuation.
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Ancient Fires Drove Sabertooth Cats and Other Large Mammals Extinct, Study Suggests
Fossils from La Brea Tar Pits in Southern California suggest that sabertooth cats and other large North American mammals disappeared as a result of wildfires spurred by human activity.
Muon Discovery Moves Physicists One Step Closer to a Theoretical Showdown
The deviance of a tiny particle called the muon might prove that one of the most well-tested theories in physics is incomplete.
As Weather Threats Loom, Even Chimps Learn to Shelter in Place
How do you teach 300 chimpanzees to seek safety in a storm? With cowbells, sound machines and a bright orange Frisbee.
New Antarctic Starfish Are Doting Parents and Vicious Predators
A close examination of a collection of starfish in the Smithsonian revealed even more starfish inside those starfish.
Amid Signs of a Covid Uptick, Researchers Brace for the ‘New Normal’
Infections remain very low, despite signs of a slight increase. Now, experts are looking for clues to what living with the coronavirus will be like this winter and beyond.
Amid Signs of a Covid Uptick, Researchers Brace for the ‘New Normal’
Infections remain very low, despite signs of a slight increase. Now, experts are looking for clues to what living with the coronavirus will be like this winter and beyond.
Move Over, Men: Women Were Hunters, Too
Anthropologists are finding that women in modern foraging societies have played a major role in catching game.
From an Ancient Soil Sample, Clues to An Ice Sheet’s Future
A rediscovered sample of frozen sediment, collected more than 50 years ago, highlights the vulnerability of Greenland’s ice sheet to a warming climate.
Fossils Where They Don’t Belong? Maybe We Just Didn’t Look Hard Enough.
Researchers are fiercely debating whether claims about the origins of mammals result from a bias toward Northern Hemisphere fossil sites.