Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more than 400,000 years ago.

Neanderthal nasal cavity study overturns long-held ideas about their cold-climate adaptations and reveals new insights into facial evolution.

In an experiment, investigators found that the same grocery basket at a Seattle store cost between $114 and $124.

Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.

WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri a "wasteful" diversity move... ...because we live in the dumbest possible timeline

Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a co-chair of the AI commission, owns up to tens of millions of dollars worth of stock in tech giants pushing to block states from regulating AI.

“‘On Becoming a Cop Hater’ remains the only one of Didion’s Saturday Evening Post columns never republished in her essay collections. Why did she choose to shed it?” —Scott Saul

Trees may look still and silent, but they’re engaged in a constant, complex dialogue—through air, soil, and even electricity.

Authors say Amazon's knockoff book problem is leaving them frustrated — and making the internet worse in the process.

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Phoenix police found a 5-month old boy dead after his mother called 911. Prosecutors blame parents for the death and for illnesses of other children.

Yeah, I know, it's the Post but the notion of "The Brony Bomber" is amusing.

The Tulsa Police Department arrested a man accused of robbing a south Tulsa liquor store with an antique gun on Friday night.

AI slop in your brain? It is more likely than you think.

The family of a California man who died aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit accusing the company of overserving him alcohol and using excessive force that they say led to his death. Michael Virgil, 35, died Dec. 13, 2024, during a four-day Navigator of the Seas cruise from Los Angeles to Ensenada, Mexico. He was traveling with his fiancée, their young son and other relatives. According to the complaint filed in federal court, Virgil participated in the ship’s all-inclusive “Deluxe Beverage” package and was served at least 33 alcoholic drinks in the hours leading up to his death. The family alleges he became visibly intoxicated as crew members continued serving him alcohol. Virgil became lost and agitated while trying to find his cabin, the lawsuit states. It alleges Royal Caribbean security personnel tackled him, restrained him with their body weight and held him in a prone position that restricted his breathing. The complaint also says crew members used multiple cans of pepper spray and, at the direction of a staff captain, injected him with Haloperidol, a sedative. Virgil became unresponsive and died on the ship.

The two-masted schooner was fully intact—a rarity in Great Lakes shipwreck finds.

In 2017, a lawsuit uncovered internal emails from chemical giant Monsanto that suggested its employees helped ghostwrite an influential paper that claimed to find no evidence the company’s widely used glyphosate herbicide, Roundup, caused cancer. Now, the scientific journal that published the 2000 paper has announced it has been retracted. The paper was withdrawn because of “serious ethical concerns” and questions about the validity of the research findings, toxicologist Martin van den Berg, co–editor-in-chief of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, wrote in a scathing retraction notice released on 28 November. “This article has been widely regarded as a hallmark paper in the discourse surrounding the carcinogenicity of glyphosate and Roundup,” wrote van den Berg, who works at Utrecht University. “However, the lack of clarity regarding which parts of the article were authored by Monsanto employees creates uncertainty about the integrity of the conclusions drawn.” The decision, which came more than 8 years after the initial revelations, can be traced to the work of two scientists who this year filed a retraction request with the journal after documenting the staying power of the disputed paper. “My worry is that people will keep citing it,” says Naomi Oreskes, a historian of science at Harvard University who sought the retraction along with her then–postdoctoral researcher, Alexander Kaurov.

The violent arrest of the father of three, who has no criminal convictions, "should shock the conscience," Washington Sen.Patty Murray said.

In the culture war that is higher education, state Representative Brian Harrison is a drone pilot. With the flick of his finger and a twist of the joystick, the East Texas Republican conducts lethal signature strikes. The former labradoodle breeder turned Bush bureaucrat turned regional MAGA star tweets about a college course or professor he doesn’t like, often tagging the governor, and Texas universities fall over themselves to comply. His kill rate: impressive. In early September, Harrison posted a video on X a video of a student at Texas A&M confronting an English professor over her teaching of a queer-friendly children’s book. “I just have a question, because I’m not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching,” the student said. The video set off a chain of events that has resulted so far in the termination of the professor, the demotion of a dean and a department chair, and the resignation of the president of the university. The day after the video was shared, the Texas A&M System announced an audit of curriculums, the first of a wave of ongoing reviews and bans on teaching gender and race ideology by at least five Texas public university systems.

The use of ‘nudify’ apps is becoming more and more prevalent, with hundreds of teachers having seen images created by pupils, often of their peers. The fallout is huge – and growing fast