Stick History

from Nautilus The Stick Is an Unsung Hero of Human Evolution Stone’s silent sister in the archaeological record. BY ALEXANDER LANGLANDS In April 1997, at the snooker world championship held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, Ronnie O’Sullivan stepped up to the...

Mars Is Where We Were At

from AFP via Yahoo! Deep, buried glaciers spotted on Mars By the 2030s, NASA hopes to send human explorers to Mars, the surface of which is seen in a May 2017 handout photo covered in carbon dioxide snow and ice, different from the buried glaciers researchers have...

The First Animations

from Nautilus Early Humans Made Animated Art How Paleolithic artists used fire to set the world’s oldest art in motion. BY ZACH ZORICHILLUSTRATION BY MIKO MACIASZEK Stone steps descended into the ground, and I walked down them slowly as if I were entering a dark movie...

SpaceX Mystery Messages

from The Daily Express Top SECRET US satellite launched by SpaceX aims to send ‘unknown group’ MYSTERY messages SPACEX are to launch a top-secret satellite codenamed project Zuma this Friday, the US Air Force confirmed. By TARYN TARRANT-CORNISH SpaceX cut...