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Learn how scans of 50,000- to 75,000-year-old Neanderthal remains from Bavaria traced fetal growth and possible metabolic ...

For most of human history, our ancestors kept time by the sun—the interval between one sunrise and the next marked the passage of what we call a day. But then, in the 1950s, scientists invented atomic ...

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Learn how new rock dating shortened Northern Ireland’s volcanic timeline to 5.5 million years and linked the Giant’s Causeway ...

Learn more about Antarctic sea squirts and how they could one day help with advanced melanoma treatments.

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Learn how living goblin sharks recorded near Jarvis Island and in the Tonga Trench extended the species’ known Central ...

Learn more about the walled city of Qabra, a Bronze Age hub that met a tragic end.