Ancient rock art, giant undersea reservoir, and record solar storm define this week's science

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This week’s science roundup spans the world’s oldest known rock art—a 70,000-year-old Sulawesi hand stencil and a 2.6-million-year-old Paranthropus jaw—alongside the discovery of a massive sub-seafloor freshwater reservoir off the U.S. East Coast that could theoretically supply New York City for centuries, plus Earth being hit by one of the largest solar radiation storms in decades, with JWST findings continuing to upend ideas about early black holes.
- Science news this week: The world's oldest rock art, giant freshwater reservoir found off the East Coast, and the biggest solar radiation storm in decades Live Science
- Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi Nature
- Hand stencil made almost 68,000 years ago is the oldest cave art ever found NBC News
- The world’s oldest rock art discovered in Indonesia National Geographic
- A 67,800-Year-Old Handprint May Be the World’s Oldest Rock Art The New York Times
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