A team at Japan's National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) has published a field-defining Perspective that places the societal payoff of quantum technologies front and center: ...

When scientists and regulators need clear answers to health risks—such as whether Tylenol causes autism (it doesn’t)—they typically turn to systematic reviews, widely regarded as medicine’s gold ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were making tools even earlier than archaeologists thought. By Franz Lidz Early ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430 ...

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A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows, researchers say. By Emily Anthes For a cow, Veronika has had what might ...

She needed a moo-sage. Utilizing implements isn’t limited to primates and brainiac birds. A brown cow named Veronika was documented using tools with impressive skill for the first time ever, ...

Scientists have uncovered wooden tools dating back 430,000 years, believed to be the oldest wooden tools discovered yet. The artifacts were found at a lake shore in Greece’s Megalopolis basin, ...

Two wooden tools found in southern Greece are 430,000 years old, a new study claims, making them the oldest handheld wooden tools known by 40,000 years. Given how much more likely wooden tools are to ...

Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees Scientists have been forced to rethink the intelligence of cattle after an ...