A tug-of-war explains a decades-old question about how bacteria swim

Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for how swimming bacteria change direction, providing fresh insight into one of ...
Scientific American

Humans Made Poisoned Arrowheads Thousands of Years Earlier Than Previously Thought

The use of poison on arrows marked a revolution in human hunting technology—new evidence suggests it happened tens of ...

A speeding clock could solve Darwin’s mystery of gaps in animal fossil records

This 30-million-year-long gap is actually rather helpful to Darwin. It means that there was plenty of time for the ancestor ...
Earth.com

New method finds microbial life almost as old as Earth and signs of photosynthesis

New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier ...

Grok produces sexualized photos of women and minors for users on X – a legal scholar explains why it’s happening and what can be done

Child sexual abuse material on X is clearly illegal. What’s less clear is how to force X to prevent its AI chatbot from ...

The Hidden Architecture of Ocean Life Is Finally Coming Into Focus

Encouraged by these results, Dudin, Dey, Guichard, and Hamel launched a close collaboration. Three years later, their work has produced near-encyclopedic insight into hundreds of protist species and ...