Cloudflare cracks down on UK piracy – and VPN users are getting caught in the crossfire
Cloudflare has started blocking many pirate domains for users in the UK Hundreds of illegal…
140,000-year-old skeleton shows earliest interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals
Research team: “This discovery reveals the world’s earliest known human fossil showing morphological traits of both of these human groups, which until recently were considered two separate human species. The current study shows that the five-year-old child’s skeleton is the result of continuous genetic infiltration from the local — and older — Neanderthal population into…
Ancient fossil discovery in Ethiopia rewrites human origins
A team of international scientists has discovered new fossils at a field site in Africa that indicate Australopithecus, and the oldest specimens of Homo, coexisted at the same place in Africa at the same time — between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago. The paleoanthropologists discovered a new species of Australopithecus that has never been…
Baby food firms told to cut sugar and stop promoting snacks for under-ones
Catrin Nye and Adam Eley BBC News Getty Images Baby food manufacturers must cut levels of salt and sugar in their products and stop promoting snacks for babies under the age of one, the government has said. The new guidance would also restrict the use of marketing claims that suggest health benefits without scientific evidence….
Inline code nodes now supported in Amazon Bedrock Flows in public preview
Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of support for inline code nodes in Amazon Bedrock Flows. With this powerful new capability, you can write Python scripts directly within your workflow, alleviating the need for separate AWS Lambda functions for simple logic. This feature streamlines preprocessing and postprocessing tasks (like data normalization and…
There might be a ‘Planet Y’ hiding in the outer solar system
Are there unseen planets in our solar system? Peter Jurik/Alamy Somewhere at the edge of the solar system a new Earth-sized world might be lurking, dubbed Planet Y. Astronomers have long proposed that there might be hidden planets beyond the Kuiper belt, a region of icy objects that is home to Pluto. Some of the…
Health Costs Consume a Large Portion of Income for Millions of People with Medicare
Medicare and Social Security play a central role in the lives of tens of millions of older adults and people with disabilities in the U.S., in the form of health insurance from Medicare and retirement or disability income from Social Security. Yet, even with Medicare coverage, beneficiaries can face substantial out-of-pocket health care costs, which…
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Astronomers uncover enormous bubble bigger than our Solar System
Astronomers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a vast and expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star – the largest structure of its kind ever seen in the Milky Way. The bubble, which contains as much mass as the Sun, was blown out in a mysterious stellar eruption around…
Scientists finally crack the secret to perfect chocolate flavor
Researchers have identified key factors that influence the flavor of chocolate during the cocoa bean fermentation process, a discovery that could offer chocolate producers a powerful tool to craft consistently high-quality, flavor-rich chocolate. Scientists from the University of Nottingham’s School of Biosciences examined how cacao bean temperature, pH, and microbial communities interact during fermentation and…
Scientists solve 30-year mystery of a hidden nutrient that shields the brain and fights cancer
An international team of scientists, co-led by researchers at the University of Florida and Trinity College Dublin, has cracked a decades-old mystery in human biology: how our bodies absorb a micronutrient that we rely on for everything from healthy brain function to cancer defense. Queuosine – pronounced “cue-o-scene” – is a vitamin-like micronutrient that we…
