Women interpret emojis differently to men, a new study suggests. Researchers selected 24 emojis—taken from Apple, Windows, Android, and WeChat platforms—and labeled them according to six emotional states: happy, disgusted, fearful, sad, surprised, and angry. They found women were able to more accurately interpret happy, fearful, sad, and angry emoji labels compared to men. Meanwhile, the…
The Seychelles archipelago used to be a major whaling ground, especially for Soviet whalers during the 20th century. In 1979, the waters of the Republic of Seychelles became part of the Indian Ocean Whale Sanctuary, yet almost nothing was known about the habitation of blue whales until a recent Save Our Seas Foundation (SOSF) project…
Scientists have reconstructed the skull of a 40-something Neanderthal woman buried in a cave 75,000 years ago. The woman, found in 2018, was given the name Shanidar Z after the cave in Iraqi Kurdistan where she was laid to rest. To learn more about Neanderthal anatomy, scientists spent nine months piecing together Shanidar Z’s skull from 200 bone fragments. “There is some artistic license there,…
