Dr. Frankenstein might not have needed a lightning bolt to bring his monster to life after all. A new study from Stanford ...

Zare’s team demonstrated the existence of micro-lightning, very small electricity discharges that occur between tiny droplets ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources, ...

As this column suggested last week about the coalition, other than the glacial Alhaji Atiku and the imperious Mallam el-Rufai ...

The Apocalypse is Here | How AI and ChatGPT End Humanity The story of humans began a long time ago. Three and a half billion years ago protein molecules floated around the ooze called the primordial ...

complex amino acid-based compounds somehow emerged from the primordial soup of water and chemicals, possibly triggered by a fortuitous lightning strike. However, much like the Big Bang theory can ...

Eren et al, What can lithics tell us about hominin technology's 'primordial soup'? An origin of stone knapping via the emulation of Mother Nature, Archaeometry (2025). DOI: 10.1111/arcm.

If her early work often seemed like a kind of primordial soup, the new record fast-forwards ... if nonetheless a little bit confused; you can tell that she’s feeling her way toward something.