‘My prey, my prize, my Vladimir’: flipping the gender script on predatory professors

In her Netflix series, Vladimir, Julia May Jonas attempts to tame the slippery characters and weighty themes in her novel. That’s a pity.
National Geographic news

Can bonobos use their imagination?

In a series of tea party-like experiments, a bonobo was able to identify imaginary juice and grapes. Kanzi was a famous bonobo who could understand spoken English and taught scientists a lot about ...
Scientific American

Could This Fossil Be the Key Linking Humans, Neandertals and Denisovans?

A trio of jawbones, a leg bone, and a handful of vertebrae and teeth found in Morocco may represent one of the last common ancestors of Neandertals, Denisovans and modern humans. “We can say that the ...
Space.com

Dark matter may be made of pieces of giant, exotic objects — and astronomers think they know how to look for them

Searches for dark matter particles have come up empty so far, driving theorists to get more creative with their ideas. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
IFLScience

New observations suggest that our interstellar visitor may be a "primitive carbonaceous object", complete with "ice volcanoes".

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The World’s First Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects Wants Its Collection to Shrink, Not Grow

More than 250 looted objects are on display in UNESCO's Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects. UNESCO To raise awareness of the illicit trafficking of cultural heritage artifacts, from ...
Popular Mechanics

Humans May Have Emerged Hundreds of Thousands of Years Earlier Than We Thought

Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two closely related million-year-old skulls suggest that our species might be even more ancient. When reconstructed, the more ...
CNN

A skull unearthed in China challenges the timeline of human evolution, scientists say

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis. Scientists ...
Newsweek

White House Releases List of Smithsonian Exhibits It Objects To

The White House on Thursday released a list of Smithsonian exhibits and artwork it finds objectionable, amid President Donald Trump's criticism of the institution as being too "woke." The list, ...
IEEE

Bimanual Motion Primitives for Manipulating 3D Deformable Objects Having Biological Tissues on a Planar Surface With Passive End-Effectors

Abstract: Manipulating deformable objects (DOs) that change shape during operations poses a challenge for robots due to the complexity of modelling and predicting the object’s state. This challenge is ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Rare Interstellar Object Is Blazing Through Our Solar System, Marking Only the Third Cosmic Visitor on Record

The comet 3I/ATLAS moves against a backdrop of stars. The ATLAS survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, was the first to report that the object came from interstellar space. ATLAS / University of ...