WorldPingHunter-gatherers from the last ice age sucked on betel nuts to soothe their toothaches, a new study reveals.
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WorldPingStrange, rounded grooves in prehistoric teeth are thought to have been made by regularly sucking whole betel nuts to extract a pain-relieving compound.This marks the earliest known example of probable substance addiction…
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WorldPingAnalysis of two skeletons reveals tooth wear and traces of psychoactive substance in what may be earliest known evidence for human drug taking What may be the earliest known evidence for human drug taking has been traced to ancient Indonesian forager…
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WorldPingUsing ALMA, astronomers have watched as two stars come together to form a massive stellar binary, finding chaos that indicates they emerged from different backgrounds.
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WorldPingA team of Griffith University archaeologists has uncovered evidence that humans were using mind-altering substances much earlier than previously supposed.
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WorldPingResearchers combined 100-plus images of a single black hole into an AI-powered video to chart the activity of a mighty blazar's jet.
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WorldPingAnthropologists have discovered the first-ever Denisovan arm bone in a cave in southwest China, which also held thousands of prehistoric animal bones and stone tools.
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