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Forget Beer: Ice Age Hunters Were Getting High 12,000 Years Earlier — With Betel Nuts

10 September 2026 at 10:08
Two skeletons from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi had something strange going on in their mouths. Not cavities. Not the usual wear from a tough diet. Deep, rounded grooves cut into the teeth — a pattern no archaeologist had documented before, and one nobody could explain. The answer, published in Science Advances, pushes the known […]

Scientists Discover Why Ice Ages Occur Every 100,000 Years

1 September 2026 at 16:21
An international study published in Nature Communications reveals that minimal changes in solar radiation were enough to relocate the dominant winds of the North Atlantic and permanently alter the pulse of glacial cycles. The work, authored by scientists from the Environnements et paléoenvironnements océaniques et continentaux (EPOC) laboratory, under Bordeaux INP, CNRS, EPHE–PSL, and the […]

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