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Statistical analysis of fossil data shows that it is unlikely that Australopithecus sediba, a nearly 2-million-year-old apelike fossil from …

Approximately every two Earth years, when it is summer on the southern hemisphere of Mars, a window opens: …

Even thousands of years ago people wore clothing with colorful patterns made from plant- and animal-based dyes. Chemists …

Humans settled in southwestern Amazonia and even experimented with agriculture much earlier than previously thought, according to an …

Astronomers have discovered rapidly swinging jets coming from a black hole almost 8,000 light-years from Earth. Published today …

History can tell us a lot about the Crusades, the series of religious wars fought between 1095 and …

How do you observe a process that takes more than 1 trillion times longer than the age of …

People over the millennia have reported having deeply moving religious experiences either spontaneously or while under the influence …

No one has a firm grasp on the dimensions and activity of the lowest part of our upper …

Researchers have developed a way to control the speed of light. Not only can they speed up a …