News Desk

Scientists discover 63 new young asteroid families—more than doubling the previous number
1st October 2025 phys.org | Humans, Space, Tech

New research, published in the journal Icarus, just revealed 63 newly discovered young asteroid families less than around 10 million years old. While many of these young families are likely to exist in our solar system, only 43 had been previously documented.

Past-life memories study reveals connections to anxiety, PTSD, and spirituality
30th September 2025 | psypost.org | Humans, Misc.

A new study published in The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion has found that adults who say they remember past lives tend to experience more symptoms of mental health issues, including anxiety and posttraumatic stress, than the general population.

Ancient fishing nets resurrected from pottery using X-ray CT
30th September 2025 phys.org | Ancient, Humans

This marks the first time in the world that nets from over 6,000 years ago have been digitally and physically resurrected in such detail. The research is published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.

30,000-year-old ‘personal toolkit’ found in the Czech Republic provides ‘very rare’ glimpse into the life of a Stone Age hunter-gatherer News
30th September 2025 | livescience.com | Ancient, Humans

Archaeologists have found an extraordinary cluster of Stone Age artifacts that may have been the personal gear of a single prehistoric individual. The study was published Aug. 13 in the Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology.

Europe’s oldest blue mineral pigment found in Germany
29th September 2025 phys.org | Ancient, Humans

In a new discovery that illuminates new insights into the early prehistoric origins of art and creativity, researchers have identified the earliest known use of blue mineral pigment in Europe.

Scientists Finally Reveal Why ‘Hobbits’ Were So Small
26th September 2025 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Humans

Until Homo floresiensis was discovered, scientists assumed that the evolution of the human lineage was defined by bigger and bigger brains….But these theories had to be thrown out the window when archaeologists announced our fossil cousins Homo floresiensis via scientific publication in 2004…new research on the skulls and teeth provides a novel theory for how the Hobbits evolved to be small.

Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans
26th September 2025 | theguardian.com | Ancient, Humans
Different types of magic mushrooms use unique biochemical paths to produce the same active compound
25th September 2025 phys.org | Earth, Humans

A German-Austrian team led by Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Leibniz-HKI has been able to biochemically demonstrate for the first time that different types of mushrooms produce the same mind-altering active substance, psilocybin, in different ways. The results are published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

5,000-year-old stone tomb discovered in Spain is 43 feet long — and it holds many prehistoric burials
25th September 2025 | livescience.com | Ancient, Humans

Archaeologists in Spain have discovered a 5,000-year-old stone monument that holds multiple burials and many grave goods, including weapons.

Old-fashioned economic thinking is driving biodiversity loss—study calls for shift in how we value nature
23rd September 2025 phys.org | Animal Life, Earth, Humans

Published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the new research proposes a transformative approach to economics—one that recognizes nature not merely as a resource, but as a living system deeply intertwined with human identity, culture, and well-being.

‘Completely unexplained’: James Webb telescope finds strange ‘dark beads’ in Saturn’s atmosphere
23rd September 2025 | livescience.com | Space, Weird

The beads appear above a swirling hexagonal jet stream at the gas giant’s north pole, and could emerge from interactions between its magnetosphere and atmosphere.

Tracing the ‘Green Sahara’ in Chad’s northern desert
22nd September 2025 phys.org | Ancient, Earth, Humans

A cloud of dust escapes from an excavation site in the sand of Chad’s arid north, where scientists are looking for signs of human habitation in an area once humid and called the “Green Sahara.”

Huge crater under North Sea was created by asteroid impact, scientists say
22nd September 2025 | theguardian.com | Ancient, Animal Life, Earth, Space

Silverpit crater off Yorkshire coast was caused by cathedral-sized asteroid that set off 100-metre tsunami 43m years ago. The findings are published in Nature Communications.

Glass reveals ancient asteroid impact crater could be found near Australia
19th September 2025 cosmosmagazine.com | Ancient, Earth, Space

Glass strewn across southern Australia has been revealed to be the remnants of a previously unknown asteroid impact which happened about 11 million years ago (mya)…The specimens analysed in the new study in Earth and Planetary Science Letters are ‘tektites’…

Early humans may have walked from Turkey to mainland Europe, research suggests
19th September 2025 phys.org | Ancient, Earth, Humans

The findings, published in The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, unveil a previously undocumented Paleolithic presence in Ayvalık and more importantly could redocument our species’ migration into the continent.

Community management of protected areas in the Amazon offers ‘unprecedented’ results
19th September 2025 phys.org | Animal Life, Earth, Humans

The study, published in Nature Sustainability, describes a powerful new mechanism for increasing the extent of effective area-based protection by piggybacking on community management of natural resources. The paper is titled “Community-based management expands ecosystem protection footprint in Amazonian forests.”

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