Julien Louys

2 months ago | sapiens.org | Julien Louys

✽FROM THE AIR, endless rows of palm trees swallowed the topography as we flew over Bintan Island in the South China Sea. On the ground, an occasional fallen palm tree and piles of red palm fruit scattered along the roadsides. Indonesia is the world’s largest producer of palm oil and signs of the industry are everywhere in this palm-studded tropical island nation.

Feb 11, 2023 | phys.org | Julien Louys |Thomas W. Plummer

On the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya, a short valley extends south towards the looming Mount Homa. From it have emerged some of the oldest-known stone tools used to butcher large animals, as well as the oldest remains of one of our early cousins, Paranthropus—a genus we think co-existed with our direct ancestors.

Feb 9, 2023 | theconversation.com | Julien Louys |Thomas W. Plummer

On the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya, a short valley extends south towards the looming Mount Homa. From it have emerged some of the oldest-known stone tools used to butcher large animals, as well as the oldest remains of one of our early cousins, Paranthropus – a genus we think co-existed with our direct ancestors. Similar tool and fossil discoveries had been made before, in different places and at different times.

Feb 9, 2023 | newsbreak.com | Julien Louys |Thomas W. Plummer

Why do black holes twinkle? We studied 5,000 star-eating behemoths to find outBlack holes are bizarre things, even by the standards of astronomers. Their mass is so great, it bends space around them so tightly that nothing can escape, even light itself. And yet, despite their famous blackness, some black holes are quite visible.