Culture
3-Million-Year-Old Oldowan Tools Found Were Not Made by Human Hands, Study Suggests
Paranthropus boisei. Image credit: © Roman Yevseyev. Oldowan tools, consisting of stones with one to a few flakes removed, are the oldest widespread …
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Scientists Discovered an 'Impossible' Ring Around Dwarf Planet
Astronomers have discovered an entirely new ring system within the solar system, and it's located at such a great distance from its dwarf plane…
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Cells routinely self-eating to prevent from diseases and cancer
Illustration of an autophagosome (light blue double-membrane to the right) engulfing cellular material. David S. Goodsell and Daniel Klionsky/RCSB PD…
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The largest penguin to ever waddle on Earth weighed 150 kg, fossils reveal
Scientists have unearthed the fossilized remains of the largest ever known penguin on Earth, a 340-pound (154 kilograms) behemoth that glided through…
Culture
Neanderthal were Cooking and Eating Crabs 90,000 Years-ago, Archaeologists Say
Nabais et al. present a detailed study of the crab component of the Neanderthal diet as revealed by the evidence from the Portuguese cave site of Gru…
Culture
The History of Chariot Racing in Ancient Rome
Chariot racing was very big business in ancient Rome. There was a whole industry built around the factions, the four professional stables known by …
Culture
Archaeologists have discovered a statue of ancient Roman emperor dressed as Hercules
Decius ruled for only two years before he was killed in a battle against the Goths. A newly found statue in Rome appears to depict a slain Roman em…
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Astronomers Find a Nearby Earth-mass Exoplanet Suited to Probe for Life Signs
An illustration of a the surface of a rocky exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. (NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter) J…
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319-million-year-old Fish Preserves the Earliest Fossilized Brain of a Vertebrate
Paleontologist Matt Friedman was surprised to discover a remarkably detailed 319-million-year-old fish brain fossil while testing out micro-CT scan…
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Researchers wants to bring back the Dodo from Extinction
The dodo, a Mauritian bird last seen in the 17th century, will be brought back to at least a semblance of life if attempts by a gene editing company …
