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Humans Retain ‘Ancestral’ Understanding of Ape Gestures, Study Says
A game played by more than 5,500 people revealed that humans can often interpret the gestures of chimpanzees and bonobos.
Secret Government Info Confirms First Known Interstellar Object on Earth, Scientists Say
A small meteor that hit Earth in 2014 was from another star system, and may have left interstellar debris on the seafloor.
Record-Breaking Antimatter Beam in Deep Space Discovered by Scientists
A pulsar located 1,600 light-years away is spilling antimatter into the Milky Way.
Archeologists Discover Two Huge Sphinxes in Egyptian Ruins
The sphinxes measure 26 feet in length and represent King Amenhotep III, who reigned about 3,300 years ago.
Newly-Discovered 'Borg' DNA Is Unlike Anything Scientists Have Ever Seen
These 'Borg' elements assimilated genes from other organisms, and could be used to help fight climate change.
What Scientists Have Learned from Hidden Ripples in Spacetime
MIT astrophysicist Nergis Mavalvala talks about the discovery of gravitational waves—and everything that has followed—on Motherboard’s “Space Show.”
The First Ever Nuclear Bomb Produced a Bizarre Form of Matter
The oldest known “quasicrystal” made by humans has been discovered at the New Mexico site of the 1945 Trinity bomb test.
The Farthest Spacecraft from Earth Picks Up an Unexpected New Signal
Voyager 1 has likely made the first continuous measurement of the density of matter in interstellar space.
NASA Probe Picks Up Faint Radio Signal in Venus's Atmosphere
The natural radio signal's detection marks the first data collection from the planet's ionosphere in decades.
Unexplained X-Ray Blasts from Space Might Just Solve a Cosmic Mystery, Scientists Say
Nobody knows what causes quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs), but a new study has found a much more efficient way of detecting these mysterious explosions.
Ancient Biblical Texts Have Been Discovered In a 'Cave of Horror'
New fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in a cave that was once packed with ancient human skeletons.
Scientists Finally Observed the Source of a Mysterious Signal from Space
"This new burst that we detected is about 1,000 times brighter than any other radio burst ever seen from a magnetar.”