The discovery of an enigmatic ape's 18 million year-old fossils in Egypt hints that the ancestors of all living apes, a group ...

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Two lavish Iron Age hoards unearthed in England may have been burned in honor of a queen's royal ancestor, a new study finds ...

Analysis from the United Nations World Food Programme suggests that if the war in Iran continues until June, an additional 45 ...

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Divers investigating a shipwrecked brig once owned by Lord Elgin have discovered an overlooked piece of marble from the ...

Using a new method, physicists found a way to 'catapult' electrons across solar materials in quadrillionths of a second.

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Researchers made small, pure samples of the elusive mineral lonsdaleite – also known as hexagonal diamond — and tested its ...

Archaeologists have unearthed an intact bronze cannonball used at the Battle of the Alamo. They made the discovery one day before the 190th anniversary of the historic conflict between Mexican troops ...