The opener to Matthew Walker’s TED Talk is not exactly what you’d expect to hear in a lecture …
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HumansArchaeologyScience
Oldest Scandinavian Human DNA Found in Ancient Chewing Gum
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesThe first humans who settled in Scandinavia more than 10,000 years ago left their DNA behind in ancient …
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MysteriesArchaeology
Archaeological Discovery Rewrites a Piece of Barbados History
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesWhich came first, the pigs or the pioneers? In Barbados, that has been a historical mystery ever since …
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Space
New Horizons Team Publishes First Kuiper Belt Flyby Science Results
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesNASA’s New Horizons mission team has published the first profile of the farthest world ever explored, a planetary …
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Archaeologists have discovered 15 new sites in Laos containing more than 100 1000-year-old massive stone jars possibly used …
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Humans
It’s Unlikely South African Fossil Species Is Ancestral to Humans
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesStatistical analysis of fossil data shows that it is unlikely that Australopithecus sediba, a nearly 2-million-year-old apelike fossil from …
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Approximately every two Earth years, when it is summer on the southern hemisphere of Mars, a window opens: …
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Humans
Study Shows Natural Dyes Used to Color Clothing Thousands of Years Ago
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesEven thousands of years ago people wore clothing with colorful patterns made from plant- and animal-based dyes. Chemists …
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Humans settled in southwestern Amazonia and even experimented with agriculture much earlier than previously thought, according to an …
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Astronomers have discovered rapidly swinging jets coming from a black hole almost 8,000 light-years from Earth. Published today …