Increases in Brain Size Occurred within Human Lineages Comprising Single Species, New Study Reveals
New research by scientists from the University of Reading and the University of Durham shows that encephalization (i.e., relative brain
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Study: Central Europe’s First Farmers Lived in Equality 8,000 Years Ago
The Linear Pottery Culture (Linearbandkeramik, LBK) communities, which were the first to spread farming across large parts of Europe, showed
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Fossilized Digestive Contents Shed Light on Rise of Dinosaurs
Paleontologists from Sweden and Poland have examined hundreds of fossilized samples of feces and vomit from the Polish Basin in
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Early North Americans Made Needles from Bones of Canids, Felids and Hares, Archaeologists Say
Bone needles found at the 12,900-year-old site of La Prele in Wyoming, the United States, were produced from the bones
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Meteorite Provides Evidence for Hydrothermal Activity on Ancient Mars
Scientists from Curtin University and the University of Adelaide have analyzed a 4.45-billion-year-old zircon grain from a famous Martian meteorite
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Ediacaran Nematode-Like Worm Fossils Unearthed in Australia
Paleontologists have hypothesized for decades that a major animal group called Ecdysozoa must be older than the Cambrian period, but
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Astronomers Discover Youngest Transiting Exoplanet
Astronomers have discovered a transiting exoplanet -- named IRAS 04125+2902b -- orbiting a 3-million-year-old, 0.7-solar-mass protostar in the Taurus Molecular Cloud.
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New DESI Observations Line Up with What Theory of General Relativity Predicts
Astronomers using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a state-of-the-art instrument mounted on NSF’s Nicholas U. Mayall 4-m telescope at
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Voyager 2’s Flyby of Uranus in 1986 was During Anomalous Solar Event, New Study Suggests
When NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists’ first close glimpse of this ice-giant planet.
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Gliese 229B is Actually Compact Pair of Brown Dwarfs, Astronomers Find
Astronomers have observed Gliese 229 B with the GRAVITY interferometer and, separately, the CRIRES+ spectrograph at ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The post
