New toxicology tests of Incan mummies found the kids were given not just cocaine, but alcohol and chemicals found in ayahuasca before the ceremony
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High in the mountains of northwestern Tibet, an ancient ice cap has preserved something scientists are only beginning to understand. New research suggests that ice buried within it may be more than 128,000 years old, extending the region’s known climate…
Physicists have found evidence of a particle decay so rare that it is expected to occur only around once in every 10 billion “beauty” particles. The result, from the upgraded LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), follows a…
Recent media reports of alleged sexual assaults by teenage boys draw attention to an uncomfortable truth: Young people sometimes perpetrate harmful sexual behavior against their peers.
Apple’s new App Store rules will require 18+ ratings for dating apps and AI companions that offer sexual or romantic content.
A new breakthrough in lithium separation could help overcome major challenges in extracting this essential battery material. A new technology developed at The University of Texas at Austin could make lithium extraction faster and more environmentally friendly by separating the…
If you are of a certain age, you might remember an innocent time when the honey badger (Mellivora capensis) took over the internet. Viral videos showing the feisty mammals that “don’t care” and punching above their weight made the honey…
Tree planting provides wood, biomass and climate benefits, but the location where those new forests are established matters. An international study by researchers in Spain, Chile and Finland shows that converting nonforested land into planted forests can increase wildfire activity,…
Archaeologists in southeastern Bulgaria have unearthed a marble relief showing the goddess Cybele beside three nymphs, a pairing that researchers call unusual. The carving came from a pagan temple destroyed by fire about 1,500 years ago. It may help explain…
A distant comet following a millennia-long orbit could provide valuable insights into how future space missions identify and study these elusive objects. A space telescope built to study distant galaxies has discovered a previously unknown comet approximately 1.3 billion kilometers…