Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. A megastructure found in the Baltic Sea may represent one of the oldest known hunting structures used in the Stone Age – and could change what is known about how hunter-gatherers lived some 11,000 years … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. After a failed moon landing mission last month, NASA is pinning its hopes on a second spacecraft — developed by a separate company — that will make the first moon landing for the United States … Read more
Researchers recovered ancient human bone fragments from the Ilsenhöhle cave in Ranis, Germany.Tim Schüler / TLDA Human bones in a German cave place Homo Sapiens in Europe 7,500 years earlier than experts thought. The findings suggest that Homo sapiens lived near Neanderthals for millennia, which is a new revelation. Scientists used to think that Homo … Read more
Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s science newsletter Wonder Theory. To receive it in your inbox, Register for free here. When Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago, volcanic debris buried Pompeii and created a city forever frozen in time. Researchers consider the doomed metropolis one of the most poignant archaeological … Read more
This is part three of three. “MVP” Challenges We worked on Pinboard with varying degrees of intensity (at its peak it was supported by OKR by three developers, sometimes it was just me, using 10% of the time, hack days and other cheeky opportunities to squeeze it in between other OKR work to use) … … Read more
Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse put a twist on a classic in ‘Lisa Frankenstein.’Michele K. Short/2024 Focus Features LLC In 1818, Mary Shelley published ‘Frankenstein; or, the modern Prometheus.” In the novel, Frankenstein brings a creature to life with a “spark of being.” Grotesque experiments with electricity and corpses may have inspired Shelley. In the … Read more
Jay Blahnik introduces new fitness features in 2020 (Apple) Jay Blahnik wants to help you feel fit and healthy. That’s probably not particularly surprising, considering he’s Apple’s vice president of fitness technologies. But what might be a little more unexpected is that he doesn’t really care how you do it. Whether you work out in … Read more