The Oldest Bone Tools Ever Found Might Rewrite Human History—Again
1.5 million years ago, some very determined hominids took a look at a pile of animal bones and thought, “What if we made these sharper?” Fast forward to today, and archaeologists digging through Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge have just uncovered the oldest known bone tools...
Scientists May Have Just Outwitted COVID’s Endless Mutations
The virus that upended the world in 2020 is still playing its favorite game: mutation roulette. Every time scientists craft a treatment, SARS-CoV-2 mutates just enough to escape. Most pandemic-era antibody therapies are now about as useful as a floppy disk in the age...
The Rubin Observatory Will Catch Millions of Exploding Stars—And Maybe Rethink Reality
The universe is a violent place. Case in point: white dwarf stars, which sometimes decide that instead of dying quietly, they’ll detonate in a thermonuclear tantrum we call Type Ia supernovas. The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to catch millions of these...