About 13,800 years ago, Magdalenian hunters in northern Spain were still visiting the cave of Altamira, famous today for its painted bison. (The cave’s entrance would collapse around 13,000 years ago.) On the other side of the world, a different group of hunters was setting up camp on a ridge above the Tanana River, in […]

Hace unos 13.800 años, los cazadores magdalenienses del norte de España todavía frecuentaban la cueva de Altamira, en Cantabria, cuya entrada se hundiría hacia 13.000 años atrás. Al otro lado del planeta, otro grupo de cazadores levantaba un campamento en una loma sobre el río Tanana, en el interior de Alaska, con un gran horno […]

At a rally, he spoke highly of the backside of John Husted, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Ohio. He has posted one video after another of big cats attacking real people before sharing one — created with artificial intelligence — in which he is seen fending off a fearsome lion, dressed in a suit and with his bare hands. And he has repeated tired memes disrespecting Greenland, as well as an endless stream of clips and videos flattering himself.

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Until now, the biggest fruiting bodies known among the ascomycetes, the largest group of fungi (it includes morels and truffles), stood between 20 and 30 centimeters (8 to 12 inches) tall, about the length of a school ruler. Researchers at the Kunming Institute of Botany, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have now found […]

Hasta ahora, los cuerpos fructíferos más grandes conocidos entre los ascomicetos, el grupo más numeroso de hongos, medían entre 20 y 30 centímetros de altura, lo que un folio DIN A4 puesto de pie. Investigadores del Instituto de Botánica de Kunming (Academia China de las Ciencias) han encontrado en Yunnan, al suroeste de China, uno […]

On Tuesday, three weeks before the midterms, the White House went back to its news conferences after a 47-day hiatus following the departure of former press secretary Karoline Leavitt. Her successor, Katie Zacharia, made a very brief appearance in which she only took three questions and fell short of the cool aplomb with which Leavitt made a name for herself defending the policies of her boss, President Donald Trump, resorting to lies when necessary.

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When people picture Gaul between the fifth and seventh centuries, they tend to think of invading tribes, shrinking towns and Merovingian kings so passive that later historians nicknamed them the “do-nothing kings”. A hilltop in Burgundy fits that picture badly. Archaeologists there are digging up a sizeable church, buildings heated from beneath the floor and […]

Cuando se piensa en la Galia de los siglos V al VII suelen venir a la cabeza los pueblos bárbaros, las ciudades en declive y unos reyes merovingios tan poco activos que la historiografía posterior los bautizó como «reyes holgazanes». Lo que está saliendo a la luz en lo alto de un monte de Borgoña […]

Five kilometres (about three miles) of open sea, strong currents and waves that give no warning. That is the distance between the coast of Bømlo, in western Norway, and Hespriholmen, a small rocky islet that archaeologists regard as the most emblematic Stone Age site in the region. For thousands of years, groups of fishers and […]

Cinco kilómetros de mar abierto, con corrientes fuertes y olas que no avisan. A esa distancia de la costa de Bømlo, en el oeste de Noruega, se levanta Hespriholmen, un islote que los arqueólogos consideran el yacimiento de la Edad de Piedra más emblemático de la región. Hasta allí se acercaban remando, hace milenios, grupos […]

Si se corta un colmillo de mamut a lo ancho, aparece un dibujo que la naturaleza ha trazado sin ayuda de nadie. Hay anillos concéntricos, parecidos a los de un tronco de árbol, que marcan el crecimiento del marfil y reciben el nombre de líneas de Owen. Y hay además una trama de líneas curvas […]

Cut a mammoth tusk across and a pattern appears that nobody drew. Rings like those of a tree trunk mark how the ivory grew, and are known as Owen’s lines. Crossing them runs a web of curved lines that looks like the mesh of a net, the Schreger lines. About 18,000 years ago, in a […]

About 70 million years ago, in what is now Alberta, Canada, a young Albertosaurus—a relative of T. rex—ended up as food for another dinosaur. The key lies in bite marks preserved on its jaw. The study, published in the Journal of Paleontology, suggests that the culprit was probably a dromaeosaurid, the group of dinosaurs popularly […]

Hace unos 70 millones de años, en lo que hoy es Alberta (Canadá), un joven Albertosaurus —un pariente del T. rex— acabó siendo alimento de otro dinosaurio. La clave está en unas marcas de mordeduras conservadas en su mandíbula. El estudio, publicado en Journal of Paleontology, sugiere que el responsable fue probablemente un dromeosáurido, el […]

Among the stone tools that early humans left beside a lake in northern Israel, archaeologists found something far bigger: the molar of an elephant, about 8 inches (20 cm) tall and 3 inches (8 cm) wide, lying next to several pieces of tusk. It sat at the same level of ground as handaxes and cleavers […]

The Japanese apparel group Fast Retailing, owner of the Uniqlo chain, continues to grow at a rapid pace and could finish 2026 as the world’s second-largest fashion retailer. On Thursday, the company reported record annual results, with double-digit increases in both revenue and profit.

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Entre las hachas de piedra que unos homínidos dejaron junto a un lago del norte de Israel apareció algo bastante más grande: una muela de elefante de unos 20 centímetros de alto y 8 de ancho, acompañada de varios fragmentos de colmillo. Estaban en el mismo nivel del terreno que los útiles, rodeados de hachas […]

Durante siglos, la historia de las matemáticas griegas ha estado dominada por figuras como Euclides, Arquímedes o Apolonio de Perga. Sin embargo, junto a esa tradición teórica y deductiva, existió otra mucho más terrenal y pragmática que rara vez aparece en los manuales: la matemática práctica. Un nuevo estudio de Thomas Kelly, investigador de la […]

When we think of Greek mathematics, we think of Euclid, Archimedes and Apollonius of Perga: elegant proofs and general rules. Alongside that tradition ran a humbler one, which rarely makes it into textbooks. It was maths for getting a job done, and a new study argues that the people who practised it leaned heavily on […]

The Hittite generals posted in western Anatolia (the Asian part of modern Turkey) did not mince words. They told their king that the territory was surrounded by enemies. They asked for soldiers, horses and war chariots, and warned that without help the army could be destroyed. They also made it clear that they would not […]