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Monday, May 11, 2020

Humans and Neanderthals May Have Shared Jewelry Designs

Pendants made from cave bear teeth are among the items found with the earliest modern human fossils in a cave in Bulgaria.

Charles Q. Choi, Contributor

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Technology

Why Artificial Brains Need Sleep

Like biological brains, artificial neural networks may depend on slow-wave sleep for learning.

Charles Q. Choi, Contributor

Creature

Hammerheads Drive Blacktip Sharks Closer to Beaches and Humans

New drone footage catches shark-on-shark predation in action.

Joshua Learn, Contributor

Technology

Light And Art Come Together

Celebrate the International Day of Light on May 16, 2020

Jason Socrates Bardi, Editor

Earth

Glacier-Fueled Floods Gouged out Greenland’s Hidden Canyons

Ice-buried canyons may have been formed by repeated floods as the world went into an ice age more than 2 million years ago.

Tom Metcalfe, Contributor

A small robot sits atop a pile of poppy seeds meant to represent shifting soil.

Technology

New Gait, Developed on Poppy Seed Soil, Could Help NASA Rovers Explore Moon and Mars

Researchers have developed unique gaits for rovers to prevent them from getting stuck in deep sand or soil.

Meredith Fore, Contributor

In this visual representation of a network of vaccine-related pages on Facebook, blue represents pages expressing pro-vaccine sentiments, red represents pages expressing anti-vaccine sentiments, and green represents pages that are interested in vaccines,

Culture

Anti-Vaccine Messaging Is Well-Connected on Social Media

A new social network map shows a well-connected anti-vaccine movement, now intertwined with coronavirus conspiracy theories.

Marcus Woo, Contributor

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