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Las Monedas and La Pasiega Cave New research suggests that ancient cave paintings may have heavily influenced the art of our Ice Age ancestors. Using a psychological technique called pareidolia, scientists examine Stone Age rock art painted onto the walls of the Las Monedas and La Pasiega caves in northern Spain. They find that, in…

Megamonodontium mccluskyi fossil This story is all about spiders. Check it out: scientists have discovered a new genus and species of arachnid fossils dating back to the Miocene, which is the period from 23 to 5 million years ago. One of the new spiders is Megamonodontium mccluskyi, named after the U.S. man who discovered it.…

The Caribbean Box jellyfish (The Caribbean Box jellyfish) For the first time, scientists have discovered that jellyfish can learn from experience and change their behavior in response to past experiences, despite lacking a central brain. This surprising finding overturns previous assumptions about how brainless jellyfish are thought to be. The research focuses on the Caribbean…

Statue of a Seated Woman The centuries have not been kind to ancient artifacts, especially works of art. Museums across the world are filled with examples of statues and sculptures that are damaged in some way, often missing limbs or showing signs of dilapidation. However, the Romans deliberately created statues without heads, for a practical…

One in 30 million Blue Lobster Colors Although lobsters aren’t generally well-known, IFLFScience has collected a list of some really unusual lobster colors. Some of the most common lobsters are shiny red or orange, but occasionally an unusually colored lobster will pop up in the net and surprise us all. Banana is definitely on the…

Fall Leaves & Leaves Day and Night The first day of fall is marked by the autumn equinox, also known as the equinux. The equinix is a day that sees equal parts day and night, twice a year, once in the spring and once in falls. There are many myths surrounding the equination of the…

Lightning flashes occur 100 times a day The new study doesn’t conclude that there is no lightning on Venus, just that there are other, more plausible alternatives to the lightning hypothesis. One possibility is that meteorites hit the planet and cause flashes of light, similar to those seen on Earth. The team estimates that about…

DMT (dimethyltryptamine) Using Reddit, scientists have attempted to explore the sense of familiarity that accompanies altered states of consciousness produced by DMT, a naturally occurring psychedelic. They report that in a new study, a team from the University of Toronto, Canada and Imperial College, London, they have found that first-time users of DMT have a…

Canidius Crassus Cleopatra’s handwriting on an ancient royal decree appears on a decree grants tax exemption to Publius Canidius Crassus, a Roman general and consul, for the annual export of wheat and import of wine. The word ginesthoi — meaning do as I command in Ancient Greek — appears on the decree. It was allegedly…

Three Quarks for Muster Mark, The Science of Quantum Physics There are six varieties of quarks, including one called the strange one, which is strange. However, in the world of the very small, quantum physics reigns, many things are strange, and perhaps charm quarks are stranger still. Last year, they were found to flaunt their…