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Study Showcases Certain Neanderthal Gene Variants Make an Individual More Susceptible to Autism Neanderthals may have ...

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In a groundbreaking discovery, botanists have identified a towering, ancient species of tree in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains ...

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The mysteries surrounding the life and death of Te K’ab Chaak, the first ruler of the ancient Mayan city of Caracol in Belize ...

All four of the octopus species in the genus Hapalochlaena have tetrodotoxin, making them the four most venomous species of ...

Scientists at a Denver museum stumbled onto the oldest and deepest-known dinosaur fossils unearthed in the city when drilling ...

The largest sloth of all time was the size of an elephant. Known to paleontologists as Eremotherium, the shaggy giant ...

A 140,000-year-old skull discovered in Skhul Cave on Mount Carmel, Israel, may represent one of the most significant findings in human evolutionary history. According to a new anatomical analysis, ...

The scope of nuclear fusion power has taken a huge step forward with the pulsed superconducting magnet system, which sits in the center of ITER's tokamak reactor in Southern France, as reported by ...

The dispersion of bacteria moving through porous environments follows an astonishingly simple and universal law. The Earth is populated by swimming microorganisms, such as bacteria, which ...

Australian scientists detected a signal from a satellite launched over 60 years ago. The only problem? It's been deactivated for years.

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