A new study published in PLOS One sheds new light on early human intelligence by revealing that 60,000-year-old ostrich eggshell fragments from southern Africa bear intricate geometric markings. These designs offer an astonishing glimpse into the advanced cognitive abilities of prehistoric humans, challenging the long-held notion that early humans were far removed from sophisticated thought
More than 200 fossilized eggs belonging to the flying reptile Hamipterus tianshanensis have been unearthed in northwestern China. The discovery includes at least 16 partial embryos, several preserved in three dimensions. The find, reported in Science, marks one of the largest collections of pterosaur eggs ever documented. According to the research team led by Xiaolin
Apple TV’s “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” continues the earth-shattering story introduced in the MonsterVerse movies. Season 2 dives deeper into the clandestine history of the mysterious Monarch organisation and its connection to the Titans – especially the giant radioactive one with the million-dollar smile known as Godzilla. As demonstrated on the show and the movies,
David Hole spends his weekends doing what plenty of men his age do around Maryborough, a small town northwest of Melbourne. He drives out to the regional park, unpacks his metal detector, and walks the yellow clay soils listening for the signal that means he has found gold. The area was at the centre of
Saturn eclipsed by Titan as seen from the Cassini probe – credit, NASA/JPL-Caltech A neat feat of calculation and deduction may have solved one of our solar system’s greatest mysteries. Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is bigger than Mercury, yet for all its conspicuousness, scientists don’t know exactly how it came to be so
Researchers at the Center for AI Safety and Scale AI have published “Humanity’s Last Exam” — a test designed to measure how close today’s most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) models are to meeting or exceeding human-level knowledge across several domains. The test was launched in January 2025, but scientists outlined the framework and their thinking
Despite the headline, this isn’t really a story about superconductivity—at least not the superconductivity that people care about, the stuff that doesn’t require exotic refrigeration to work. Instead, it’s a story about how superconductivity can be used as a test of some of the weirder consequences of quantum mechanics, one that involves non-existent particles of
The radio ‘howl’ of a lightning-like discharge has been detected at Mars for the first time. While orbiting the red planet, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft recorded an unusual electromagnetic signal back on 21 June 2015. Researchers have now shown that the signal matches a ‘whistler’ – a dispersed radio wave produced when lightning-generated emissions travel through
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech In early November, Chinese astronauts on board the country’s Tiangong space station made a terrifying discovery. According to state news reports at the time, they found “tiny cracks” in their Shenzhou return spacecraft’s viewport window that were most
The mobile launcher containing the Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft arrives at the Vehicle Assembly Building after a rollback that lasted over ten hours at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on February 25, 2026. NASA teams detected issues with the helium flow and removed the rocket from the