ScienceNeanderthal vision focus gives clues to extinctionNeanderthals lived at high latitudes. There is less light than in the tropics, which may explain their larger visual cortices. People living at high latitudes today also have larger eyeballs and visual cortices.  Homing pigeon ‘Bermuda Triangle’ explained
The mystery of the “Bermuda Triangle” of the homing pigeon world may have been solved. For years, scientists have been baffled as to why the usually excellent navigators get lost when released from a particular site in New York State. Billions of Earth ‘twins’ may exist in Milky way
Our Milky Way is home to at least 17 billion planets that are similar in size to Earth, a new estimate suggests. That’s more than two Earth-size planets for every person on the globe. Just how many are located in the sweet spot where water could exist is “simply too early to call,” said Francois Fressin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who presented his work at an astronomy meeting Monday. Astronomers find biggest black hole ever
Oldest Stone Spear Tips Found: Came About 200,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
New evidence from a recently-published scientific study indicates that humans started crafting stone-tipped weapons 200,000 years earlier than previously believed. Planet with four suns discovered
Gurdon and Yamanaka share Nobel prize for stem cell work
John Gurdon from the UK and Shinya Yamanaka from Japan were Why Do Men Have Nipples?
Brace yourselves for a low blow, tough guy. Nipples remind us that gender is anything but clear-cut, especially in utero. Whatever your sex, everyone New Theory on Why Men Love Breasts
Why do straight men devote so much headspace to those big, bulbous bags of fat drooping from women’s chests? Scientists have never satisfactorily explained men’s curious breast fixation, but now, a neuroscientist has struck upon an explanation that he says “just makes a lot of sense.”
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Astronomers have discovered what may be the most massive black hole ever known in a small galaxy about 250 million light-years from Earth, scientists say.
Astronomers have found a planet whose skies are illuminated by four different suns – the first known of its type.
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