3+ week, 6+ day ago  (531+ words) Human history is brief when measured against the age of the Earth. At UC Santa Barbara's Art, Design & Architecture Museum, Tiffany Chung's mid-career survey exhibition considers human history alongside the planet's much longer timeline. "Tiffany Chung: indelible traces" brings together…...

5+ mon, 18+ hour ago  (266+ words) Hiking in the Loima hills with a few Turkana guys, I realized I had drunk an entire bottle of water before they had even taken their first sip," recalled Gurven, an author on the new paper." The genomic studies complement…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (272+ words) Researchers continue to build on a body of evidence for a fragmented comet that is thought to have exploded over the Earth almost 13,000 years ago, which may have had a role in the disappearance of mammoths, mastodons and most of…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (368+ words) One of the most intriguing features of the Dead Sea continues to be revealed: salt giants, large-scale salt deposits. Indeed, while there are other bodies of water in the world with massive salt formations, such as the Mediterranean and Red…...