By Niall McCracken BBC News IS 1 hour ago To play this content, please enable JavaScript, or try a different browser video caption, Local historians are raising awareness of this site’s fascinating astronomical connections It may seem unlikely, but a visit to an ancient Neolithic site in rural County Tyrone can evolve into a journey … Read more
The stars can no longer hide behind the light from feeding the massive black hole in the infant universe. With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have detected starlight from two early galaxies that host supermassive black holes, or quasars, for the first time. The findings could help scientists better understand … Read more
Look at the hominin tibia – the enlarged area showing the cut marks. (Briana Pobiner) The bone of an ancient human relative shows signs of cutting with stone tools – of another human relative looking to cut meat to eat. The nine cut marks on a 1.45-million-year-old left shin bone from a relative of A … Read more
An international team of scientists has discovered the remains of ancient RNA viruses in the DNA of symbiotic organisms within reef-building corals. This surprising discovery sheds light on viral infections in corals and their symbiotic partners known as dinoflagellates. Researchers were surprised to find fragments of[{” attribute=””>RNA viruses in coral partners’ genomes. Scientists have discovered … Read more