New University of Melbourne research has revealed that ice ages over the last million years ended when the tilt angle of the Earth’s axis was … Small changes in tilt of Earth’s axis ended ice ageRead more
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Earliest evidence for dairy consumption on the eastern Eurasian Steppe
Today dairy foods sustain and support millions around the world, including in Mongolia, where dairy foods make up to 50% of calories consumed during the … Earliest evidence for dairy consumption on the eastern Eurasian SteppeRead more
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Fossilized insect from 100 million years ago
Beetle parasites clinging to a primitive bee 100 million years ago may have caused the flight error that, while deadly for the insect, is a … Fossilized insect from 100 million years agoRead more
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Astronomers map ‘light echoes’ of newly discovered black hole
A team of astronomers led by Erin Kara, the Neil Gehrels Prize Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Maryland’s Department of Astronomy, has charted the … Astronomers map ‘light echoes’ of newly discovered black holeRead more
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Forensic Science is not a blank cheque
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Oldest-known fossilized digestive tract — 550 million years
A 550-million-year-old fossilized digestive tract found in the Nevada desert could be a key find in understanding the early history of animals on Earth. Over … Oldest-known fossilized digestive tract — 550 million yearsRead more
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The growing pains of orphan chimpanzees
Offspring muscle mass increased with age in both males and females. However, chimpanzee offspring that lost their mother after they were already weaned had less … The growing pains of orphan chimpanzeesRead more
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Rare 10 million-year-old fossil unearths new view of human evolution
Near an old mining town in Central Europe, known for its picturesque turquoise-blue quarry water, lay Rudapithecus. For 10 million years, the fossilized ape waited … Rare 10 million-year-old fossil unearths new view of human evolutionRead more
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Hydrogen played an important role in the evolution of Eukaryota
A new study of the ecology of an enigmatic group of novel unicellular organisms by scientists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich supports the idea hydrogen … Hydrogen played an important role in the evolution of EukaryotaRead more
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Why Your Brain Needs Exercise
In the 1990s researchers announced a series of discoveries that would upend a bedrock tenet of neuroscience. For decades the mature brain was understood to … Why Your Brain Needs ExerciseRead more