Chinese archaeologists have recently found fragments of pottery in Xianrendong Cave, Jiangxi Province in China, that date back about 20,000 years.
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Astronomers working with the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope on Hawaii have discovered four pairs of stars that orbit each other in less than 4 hours.
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Scientists using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have found that Saturn’s moon Titan likely harbors a layer of liquid water under its ice shell.
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The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) and the ATLAS experiments at CERN presented their latest preliminary results in the search for the long sought Higgs boson...
European scientists have discovered a 100 km-wide crater, the result of a massive asteroid or comet impact a billion years before any other known collision...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of feathered dinosaur in southern Germany.
Skeleton of Sciurumimus on a limestone...
A team of researchers from the University of Alberta and the Universidad de la República in Uruguay has uncovered physical proof that animals existed...
A new fish fossil from the lower Eocene found by Oxford University researcher Dr Matt Friedman has revealed why flatfishes have one of the most unusual...
Researchers have finished counting, outlining and cataloging a staggering 635,000 impact craters on Mars that are roughly a kilometer or more in diameter.
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A team of European scientists working with Bartonella bacteria has identified a new mechanism of bacterial pathogenesis.
Bartonella bacterium (Ceshencam)
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Scientists from the California Institute of Technology have discovered a new mineral embedded in the Allende meteorite that fell in central Mexico more...
In face of what has become a precipitous slide toward extinction across the Asian continent, the vultures of Cambodia have persisted, giving conservationists...
Scientists, using images collected over several years by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, have discovered that the heat from within Saturn powers turbulent...
After 10 years of archaeological investigations, researchers from the Stonehenge Riverside Project (SRP) have concluded that Stonehenge was built as a...
A new research by ESA scientists is giving credibility to theories that life came from outer space – as well as helping to create better suncreams.
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A team of US researchers, including NASA scientists, has found that ancient Antarctica was much warmer and wetter than previously suspected.
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A Norwegian-Syrian team of archaeologists has solved one of the great puzzles of the Roman Empire: why was the vibrant city of Palmyra located in the middle...
