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Not Blaming Women is Fundamental to Increase Their Presence in STEM Professions

Credit: CanvaWomen make up only 34% of graduates in the EU in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The amount is even lower in the STEM fields unrelated to care. The fact is that girls are systematically inhibited from studying these fields during their education, which restricts their chances for access...

Love Languages May Allow You to Understand Your Partner– Yet it’s Not Exactly Science

If you've ever perused a women's lifestyle magazine or scrolled through social media, you've likely come across a test that promises to reveal your "love language."This concept originated from Gary Chapman's 1992 book, The Five Love Languages, where he observed that couples often misunderstood each other's needs.To address this, Chapman proposed the five love...

Boys Are Graded More Roughly Than Girls. Why?

Credit: Daniel / Adobe StockAcross all ages and almost all areas of education, girls performance is better." Girls are approximately a year ahead of boys regarding reading ability in OECD nations, in contrast to a wafer-thin and reducing advantage for boys in mathematics. Boys are fifty percent more likely than girls to fail at...

A Large Number of Animal Skulls Were Found in Neanderthal Cave

Steppe bison cranium from Level 3. Credit: Nature Human Behaviour (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-022-01503-7A team of researchers has made an interesting discovery in a Neanderthal cave in southwestern France. They have found several large animal skulls, including those of a bear, a lion, and a hyena, all of which are much larger than the animals typically hunted...

Lasers Show Massive, 650-Square-Mile Maya Site Hidden Beneath Guatemalan Rainforest

A complex of Maya pyramids in Guatemala as seen via lidar. Credit: "LiDAR analyses in the contiguous Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin, Guatemala: an introduction to new perspectives on regional early Maya socioeconomic and political organization," by Richard D. Hansen et al., in Ancient Mesoamerica, Published online by Cambridge University Press December 5, 2022Geologists in northern Guatemala have discovered a...

Mummified Crocodiles Offer Insights Into Mummy-Making Over Time

Overview of the crocodiles during excavation. Credit: Patri Mora Riudavets, member of the Qubbat al-Hawā team, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Crocodiles were mummified uniquely at the Egyptian site of Qubbat al-Hawā during the 5th Century BC, concerning to a study released January 18th, 2023, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Bea De Cupere of the...

DNA Gathered From Slave Skeletons Buried in Unmarked 18th-Century Burial Grounds Reveals Their History

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA group of scientists affiliated with numerous institutions in the united states, collaborating with members of The Anson Street African Cemetery Project, have found out some of the history behind some of the slaved buried in 18th century Charleston, South Carolina-- home to one of the busiest slave ports in American...

Ancient Chimeras Were Suction Feeders, Not Shell Crushers

Iniopera reconstruction. Credit: Richard Dearden / University of BIrminghamA rare three-dimensional fossil of an ancient chimera has revealed new hints of the diversity of these creatures in the Carboniferous time, some 300 million years ago.Ancient chimeraA research study led by the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN) and the University of Birmingham revealed an ancient...

Monkeys– Not Humans– Made Old Sets of Stone Tools in Brazil, Study Discovers

(Dorit Bar-Zakay/Moment/Getty Images)Scientists think that old rock tools found in Brazil are the work of capuchin monkeys, not early human beings, the art and design website Artnet reported, mentioning an academic article."We are confident that the very early archeological websites from Brazil might not be human-derived but might come from capuchin apes," wrote archaeologist...

Elon Musk Now Holds World Record for Largest Loss of Wealth Ever, Guinness Says

Making HistoryElon Musk is currently officially a Guinness World Record holder … for the most quantity of money a single human has lost, ever.His net worth plummet of $182 billion since November past year has currently made the controversial business magnate the record holder for the "biggest loss of individual fortune in background."That figure...