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An examination of bones has revealed one of the largest prehistoric mass killings known in Europe, with women, adolescents ...

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The acclaimed Australian author discusses his blistering new sci-fi novel Juice, how environmental activism informed the ...

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Horses use their larynx to make two sounds simultaneously, so they are effectively singing and whistling at the same time ...

Mysterious signs engraved on objects reveal that a form of proto-writing may have been used in Europe 40,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years before the emergence of a full writing system ...

Hearing a sound while working on a complex puzzle, and then hearing it again during sleep, helped lucid dreamers better ...

Planet K2-18b, an apparent water world 124 light years away, has been seen as a promising location in the search for aliens, ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

After a Falcon 9 rocket stage burned up in the atmosphere, vaporised lithium and other metals drifted over Europe. This ...

A technology that uses a coiled wire to electrify aerosols has boosted snowfall amid a drought in the western US, according ...