Science news this week: Life on Mars, weird water and a curious human cousin
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Largest Denisovan DNA study reveals ancient genes still active in Oceanian populations
Ancient DNA inherited from Denisovans, an extinct group of human relatives, still influences the biology of people living…
Humans are the only primates with a lopsided hand preference
Of all the monkeys and apes scientists have studied, no species shows a population-level hand preference. Individual primates…
Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out Why Most People Are Right-Handed
Around 90% of people—across cultures and throughout recorded history—are right-handed. That fact may seem ordinary, yet it remains…
Scientists May Have Finally Solved Why Most Humans Are Right-Handed
Credit: Unsplash. Nine out of ten people favor their right hand. They write with it, eat with it,…
The strange reason nearly all humans are right-handed
Roughly nine out of 10 people favor their right hand, a pattern so common it can feel almost…
Neanderthals used rhinoceros teeth as tools for making stone implements, study finds
Neanderthals did more with hunted animals than eat their meat. A new study suggests they kept and reused…
Neanderthals May Have Used the World’s First Antibiotic 50,000 Years Ago
Creating birch tar using Neanderthal methods. Image credits: University of Cologne. If you were a Neanderthal hunter 50,000…
Neanderthal men may have chosen human women more often, reshaping human history: DNA study suggests |
Ancient history often feels distant and abstract, reduced to fossil fragments and textbook timelines. Yet every so often,…
Humans Sketched Oddly Precise Geometric Patterns Onto Ostrich Eggs 60,000 Years Ago
Ostrich eggs are huge. Big enough, in fact, for ancient humans to use them as primitive writing surfaces…