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news Anthropology Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Archaeological excavation
Archaeologists report a 13,800-year-old camp in interior Alaska with an earth oven, bone needles and Siberia-like stone tools, from one excavated block.
news Biology Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Red List reassessment
A Nature reassessment of 892 reef corals puts 340 of 774 assessed species (44%) in a threatened category. Data end in 2020; risk now is likely higher.
news Earth Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Palaeoclimate proxy data
Weighting 27 climate models by 6,000-year-old seabed sea ice clues suggests March Arctic ice may be nearly 1 million km² below the plain model average.
news Anthropology Evidence status: Peer-reviewed journal; synthesis of published archaeological and historical records; full text not read by SciQuest
Tuna fishing dates back 44,000 years and billfish 10,000, yet a PNAS review finds heavy offshore fishing mostly began only in the last 200 years.
news Astronomy Evidence status: Peer reviewed · New observations
Rubin Observatory found two Neptune Trojans trailing the planet whose simulated orbits stay stable for 1 billion years, doubling the known L5 set to four.
news Earth Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Statistical model of radiocarbon dates
A Science Advances model of 540 radiocarbon dates finds the Kikai-Akahoya eruption cut southern Kyushu's Jomon population while the north kept growing.
news Physics Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Lab demonstration
Google's Willow chip cut magic-state errors about 40-fold in a Science paper, keeping only 8% of attempts. What cultivation is and what is still unproven.
news Astronomy Evidence status: Official announcement
NASA says Roman Space Telescope's main camera has 63 nm RMS optical error against a 90 nm requirement. The figures are the mission team's own.
news Astronomy Evidence status: Peer reviewed · JWST observations
JWST finds gas near Sagittarius A* holds about 1.8 times the Sun's metals, like nearby stars. Here is how it was measured and what stays uncertain.
