The center of our galaxy is a frenzy of activity. A behemoth black hole — 4 million times …
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NASA’s first rover mission to Mars, the Pathfinder, imaged an extraterrestrial marine spillover landscape 22 years ago, according …
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A new wallaby-sized herbivorous dinosaur has been identified from five fossilized upper jaws in 125 million-year-old rocks from …
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The sea bed in the deep ocean during the Cambrian period was thought to have been inhospitable to …
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Usually, soft-bodied species like spiders aren’t fossilized in rock-like animals with bones and teeth. More often, ancient spiders …
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Excavations at two quarries in Wales, known to be the source of the Stonehenge bluestones, provide new evidence …
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Anthropologists at the University of Oxford have discovered what they believe to be seven universal moral rules. The …
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What is a black hole? In an article that has just appeared in the journal Nature Astronomy, LMU …
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Megalodon — a giant predatory shark that has inspired numerous documentaries, books, and blockbuster movies — likely went …
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Most schoolchildren learn that the Earth has three (or four) layers — a crust, mantle, and core, which …