{"id":314537,"date":"2025-11-29T15:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T15:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/314537\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T15:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T15:01:09","slug":"science-news-this-week-an-enigmatic-human-relative-dark-matter-discovery-and-mysterious-lights-in-the-sky-during-nuclear-weapons-tests-live-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/314537\/","title":{"rendered":"Science news this week: An enigmatic human relative, dark matter discovery and mysterious lights in the sky during nuclear weapons tests &#8211; Live Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi_gFBVV95cUxPdTh5MkE2RmN3TDljMTZwUDhmeVZHZjh3end5a2VBRWxlWU9tb1FxLXk4TDNNS0phOTZZbEhNVjRZSEl0T09VOFJNMmJxSEhSb2JpblNLNVZZNjR0WVh0MVNnSmxjdDNuYTJMcm0xdklVRURNVWhtWnk5TTJ0V0l1dGc5QXJ5MHJoRzBKSFVQZmlTajJWM1R2UVJRQ2FhUVpDa3Q2WWFkVkNTQjM4UDMzb1c0UVc4TlAtTmR0dHVVWmVPLU5vYkI2dHR2QnM0ZnFhTVJ2MnE1WjF6dnVrM214em1od1UxQVRyNTVsc3F6emxTaV96cGl0MUgtejItZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Science news this week: An enigmatic human relative, dark matter discovery and mysterious lights in the sky during nuclear weapons tests<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Live Science<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiwwFBVV95cUxNRE5kTUdzU25TbUFwRm52bXlXX2JUOWVMU29YdW1zTEZWc05jMFJmZHNZS2lxRmVpaFJRX3h0bnN4Y1RyTWtZVmxFT0FSNklCbjk0X0k2UnpIYzFfRVJWS0pZNVFGN2VZQ0ZXajNLdndQT3dLai04LTZIbUJoMG5SaHJSVjV4aUE3ODZmWlpvS19kUkVmUkJqZ0RBcDdSSDlMT3FkS0ZoRm9nRi01NG5qZklXOHRuc2FOb20zTkstaDRvN2s?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Early hominin Australopithecus afarensis may not be our human ancestor after all<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Natural History Museum<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiX0FVX3lxTE1xOGVKVEJVWkQxeXZ5RGJCbUlvZzhqc1RQREhYS25kOUo4NGVoRF9GcXlscEoydmRLaHJPNUM5NjRRODFfTG1EVUJyeEpGbXEtNkhZcktObE5MdjRIUVow?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New finds shed light on diet and locomotion in Australopithecus deyiremeda<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Nature<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMinAFBVV95cUxPR1BzRzJ3QXkyRXFqYmhwNEtjTGl3TjRJTWh6SGpmV1NabmNQcUQyMzNlOTQxR1NSXzZaSmlaSFVjOEIwdHNZTTdTVU9zN1VJYV9aNk1CbEI3WDJ4NFhMb1NsQ05kYVM1ZTUzU2wtWjBLRHJ6bFdSWEJnV0tSc1VYX2tXSkVkajlpMEhxLVVuOENoZEZiU1RCdXNNOFg?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Lucy&#8217; Was Neighbors With an Even Older Human Ancestor, Fossils Reveal<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;ScienceAlert<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi_wFBVV95cUxQRGNubGdkTEVZd3hCRnROT2ZWQnU3ZkxQOVlNNV81cXJ4SXRxX1BCVmRUUkZyZTNRX0RCc21wN2ZvakFkckw0VmJ3QUhzbGZSOEJNQ0V0WWlNZDc4d2ZUendpNDRUODl1RjRkenlEb005b3hETml3NGNHUnBDZlZPZmk5SnFJX0JMYkk5Y1VoN09oT1NDb0lCWS0tZW0tTjRmTXNyZ240dFJjckliTEFYekR3TlRuUWJ4YTFwdDlCa3BYUDNsVHc5dnJYTDV4aXpZOFhNTHZVSXFQQUw0ZEY4UVVXS2dTc2ZyY3ZDUzg2Z1dtc0lxZ3piZU8zRk5qeFU?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A fossilized foot found 15 years ago belonged to enigmatic human relative that lived alongside Lucy, scientists say<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Live Science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Science news this week: An enigmatic human relative, dark matter discovery and mysterious lights in the sky during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-314537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}