Fragmented Neanderthal bones discovered in a cave in Belgium show that one group cannibalized the women and children of ...

A deadly conflict between rival groups of chimpanzees in Uganda led to comprehensive victory and a bounty of territory and ...

Archaeologists have discovered 225 shabtis — figurines meant to work for the deceased in the afterlife — in a pharaoh's tomb.

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On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover recently came across an odd rock, dubbed "Phippsaksla," that is unlike anything else the robot ...

Methanotrophs, including those that capture methane from the air, seem to outcompete methanogens in dry environments, a new ...

Built from a single erbium atom, a hybrid quantum bit encodes data magnetically and beams it through fiber-optic wavelengths.

After the Trump administration threatened countries with tariffs and visa restrictions, a first-ever global carbon tax is ...

Free radicals are highly reactive molecules that are missing an electron. They get a bad rap, but could they actually have ...

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