A historian argues that King Verica, the Iron Age ruler of the Atrebates, was a woman, which changes how the Roman invasion of Britain is understood.

• Roman conquest of Britain
• Iron Age Britain
• Atrebates tribe
• +2

A new study argues that British archaeologist James Leslie Starkey, killed in 1938, was the victim of a calculated assassination driven by a land-related grievance rather than random banditry.

• colonial archaeology
• Arab Revolt (1936-1939)
• land disputes in Mandatory Palestine
• +1

A 75,000-year-old Neanderthal skeleton from Iraqi Kurdistan shows signs of a possible fatal wooden spear wound, which may be one of the earliest known injuries of its kind in a human ancestor.

• Neanderthals
• prehistoric violence
• wooden spears
• +2

Young sunflower seedlings exposed to three lights bent toward the dimmest one, showing that plants combine light signals in ways that can distort their sense of direction.

• phototropism
• plant light sensing
• sunflower growth
• +1

A strict diet and supervised exercise put more than half of younger adults with type 2 diabetes into remission within six months, according to a small clinical trial.

• type 2 diabetes
• diabetes remission
• very low-calorie diet
• +2

Researchers are testing whether large language models can introspect, using artificial "thoughts" injected into the models' neural networks.

• AI introspection
• large language models
• anomaly detection in neural networks
• +2

The 1989 cold fusion claim failed, but a real research program on exotic atoms and muon-catalyzed fusion has since emerged, even though it will not solve the energy crisis.

• cold fusion
• muon-catalyzed fusion
• exotic atoms
• +2