Artist’s impression of decorated, custom-made clothing in the Upper Paleolithic. Credit: Mariana Ariza A team of researchers led by an archaeologist from the University of Sydney is the first to suggest that eye needles are a new technological innovation used to decorate clothing for social and cultural purposes. This marks the major shift from clothing … Read more
UK house prices are overvalued, suggesting they will fall in some parts of the country. But the big question is: how far do prices have to fall? And where are prices most overvalued? New data from Zoopla this morning shows that UK house prices are currently 8% ‘overvalued’ but will be ‘fairly valued’ by the … Read more
A new species of piranha-like fish has been discovered in the Amazon after secretly disguising itself as another, almost identical species for almost 200 years. Scientists have named the newly discovered fish after the dark lord Sauron from JRR Tolkien’s fantasy epic ‘The Lord of the Rings’. However, the fish is not nearly as scary … Read more
A flounder looks like a hallucination of a fish. His body is flat as a pancake, his head is permanently tilted to one side, and instead of having one eye on each side of his head, both eyes are tightly packed on one side. This anatomy, strange as it may be, is one of evolution’s … Read more
Aurora Borealis glows on the horizon of NE Minnesota Lake in the Superior National Forest. Getty It may have shorter nights and fewer bright stars than the winter night sky, but the Northern Hemisphere’s summer offers the best views of our Milky Way. The sight of the Milky Way arcing across the sky in the … Read more
Sometime in the coming months, a spectacle could light up the northern sky. There, in the constellation Corona Borealis, more than 2,500 light-years away, lurks a star called T Coronae Borealis, building up to an explosion that will temporarily cause the star to become one of the brightest objects at night. sky. Astronomers are eagerly … Read more
Enlarge / The rocket for SpaceX’s fourth full Starship test flight awaits launch from Starbase, the company’s private launch base in South Texas. SpaceX Few people were happier with the successful outcome of last week’s test flight of SpaceX’s Starship launch system than NASA engineer Catherine Koerner. In comments after the spaceflight, Koerner praised the … Read more