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Early Humans Sheltered in This Lava Tube 10,000 Years Ago—And It’s Still in Use Today
Fossils and stone tools show that a cave in Saudi Arabia has been used as shelter by humans for millennia, up to the present dayBy Gillian Dohrn & Nature magazineResearchers exploring the Umm Jirsan Lava Tube system. A first-of-its-kind study in northwestern Saudi Arabia suggests that humans and their livestock have been using a cave
Do any animals keep pets like humans do?
Koko the gorilla with her gray tabby cat, named All Ball. It's unclear if connections between animals like Koko and All Ball are similar to a parent adopting a child or an individual adopting a pet. (Image credit: Photo by Ron Cohn; Copyright The Gorilla Foundation/koko.org) People love their pets. Around 60% of the U.S.
Like Humans – Scientists Discover That Rats Have an Imagination
Researchers have demonstrated that rats, through a novel brain-machine interface and virtual reality system, can activate hippocampal activity patterns to imagine and navigate to locations, similar to human imagination. This finding reveals animals’ ability to voluntarily control their thoughts and could advance the study of memory and the development of prosthetic devices.As human beings, our
Humans caught more diseases after we domesticated animals
Humans Analysis of DNA from human remains up to 37,000 years old shows that more infectious diseases jumped from animals to people after the dawn of farming By Michael Le Page The bones of a person buried in a “plague pit” in London in the 14th centuryLefteris Pitarakis/ AP / Alamy DNA from the bones
Why humans feel bad for awkward robots
When someone does something cringey, it’s only human nature to feel embarrassed for them. If a friend slips and falls on a wet floor, it makes sense to feel self-conscious on their behalf. It’s a sign of empathy, according to science, and it determines how people cooperate, connect, and treat one another. What happens, though
Humans were kissing at least 4500 years ago, reveal ancient texts
Humans Many sources claim sexual kissing spread worldwide from South Asia 3500 years ago, but there is evidence it was practised in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt much earlier than that By Michael Le Page A carving at Luxor Temple in Egypt depicting Pharaoh Ramses and Queen Nefertiti embracingAgung Parameswara/Getty Images Sexual kissing was practised in
The species Homo sapiens evolved some 300,000 years ago and has come to dominate Earth unlike any species that came before. But how long can humans last? Eventually humans will go extinct. At the most wildly optimistic estimate, our species will last perhaps another billion years but end when the expanding envelope of the sun
Humans beat DeepMind AI in creating algorithm to multiply numbers
One week after DeepMind revealed an algorithm for multiplying numbers more efficiently, researchers have an even better way to carry out the task Mathematics 13 October 2022 By Matthew Sparkes Multiplying numbers is a common computational problemnarvikk/Getty Images A pair of researchers have found a more efficient way to multiply grids of numbers, beating a
Humans Aren’t the Only Animals That Kiss
When Charles Dickens wrote that “Man is the only animal that knows how to kiss,” he seems to have gotten the facts wrong. A simple Google Images search for “animals kissing” will turn up millions of hits. In fact, you can find plenty of examples in nature: moose and ground squirrels “brush noses”; turtles “tap…
Like humans, female dolphins have a functional clitoris, study
Dolphins are highly social. They have sex for social reasons as well as reproduction. Scientists have known that dolphin vaginas contained inner flaps and folds for a long time. They also have a clitoris in the vagina in a spot that would make stimulation during copulation likely. A new study reported that dolphin females- like…