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A new simulation of the early universe predicts it would have experienced frequent collisions between stars, the results of which might explain one of the most fascinating astronomical mysteries of the past few years: Little Red Dots.

Ours is the time of demons. In late 2022, the internet became fascinated by the appearance of a strange entity that had just been born into the world through artificial intelligence.

Sweeping bans on fishing across the Yangtze River upset the lives of nearly a quarter of a million people, but with the long view in mind, China’s radical policy has already had a remarkable impact on biodiversity.

Spiders belong to an ancient lineage of animal that goes back hundreds of millions of years, so if we find a behavior present in spiders it has big implications for just how long that behavior’s been around. As new research has become the first to comprehensively prove, that now includes sleep.

Long before the Pyramids of Giza were built, as the ancient Egyptian state was just beginning to take shape under the rulers of the First Dynasty, a woman named Meretneith took charge of the nascent superpower.