Discovery Of World’s Oldest DNA Breaks Record By One Million Years
Two-million-year-old DNA has been identified for the first time – opening a ‘game-changing’ new chapter in the history of evolution.
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NASA Missions Probe Game-Changing Cosmic Explosion
On Dec. 11, 2021, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a blast of high-energy light from the outskirts of
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Kilonova Discovery Challenges Our Understanding Of Gamma-Ray Bursts
While studying the aftermath of a long gamma-ray burst (GRB), two independent teams of astronomers using a host of telescopes
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How Current Southwestern North American Megadrought Is Affecting Earth’s Upper Atmosphere
New research, based on two decades’ worth of data, shows that in the ten years after its onset in 2000,
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The Universal Sound Of Swearing Across Languages
Swear words across different languages may tend to lack certain sounds such as l, r, and w, suggests research published in Psychonomic Bulletin &
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Giant Mantle Plume Reveals Mars Is More Active Than Previously Thought
On Earth, shifting tectonic plates reshuffle the planet’s surface and make for a dynamic interior, so the absence of such
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Space-Bound Clocks To Detect Dark Matter
As the precision and portability of atomic clocks continue to improve, University of Delaware physicist Marianna Safronova and collaborators Yu-Dai
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Southern Hemisphere Is Stormier Than Northern, And We Finally Know Why
For centuries, sailors who had been all over the world knew where the most fearsome storms of all lay in
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Oldest Pterodactylus Fossil Found In Germany
Pterosaurs, the flying reptiles of the dinosaur era, originated in the Late Triassic (227 million years ago) and became extinct
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Gold From Troy, Poliochni And Ur All Had Same Origin
New laser method enables study of famous jewelry – trade links in Early Bronze Age stretched as far as Indus
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