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Dutch nanotechnologists have developed a new material that is not only extremely water-repellent but also extremely oil-repellent. The newly developed...

An innovative computational approach applied by an international team of linguists sheds new light on the origins of Indo-European languages. Map shows...

According to an international team of anthropologists, an ancient skull collected from a cave in the Annamite Mountains in northern Laos is the oldest...

Exciting new fossils discovered east of Lake Turkana in Kenya confirm that there were two additional species of our genus – Homo – living alongside...

Cambridge researchers have raised questions about the theory that Neanderthals and modern humans at some point interbred. Their findings show that common...

An international team of scientists has reconstructed dietary preferences of three groups of early hominins from the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa. Reconstructions...

An international team of scientists has substantially increased the age at which we can trace the emergence of modern culture, all thanks to the San people...

Scientists have discovered the first molecular evidence that Neanderthals not only ate a range of cooked plant foods, but also understood its nutritional...

A network of porous carbon tubes that is three-dimensionally interwoven at nano and micro level – this is the lightest material in the world. Aerographite...

A team of Spanish paleoanthropologists has reconstructed the diet of Australopithecus anamensis, a hominid that lived in the east of the African continent...

Paleoanthropologists at the Wits Institute for Human Evolution in Johannesburg, South Africa, have announced the discovery of a large rock containing significant...

An international team of researchers has found that Native American populations arose from at least three migrations, with the majority descended entirely...

A team of scientists from the Aalto University in Finland has located where the sounds associated with the northern lights, or aurora borealis, are created. The...

Librarians at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, have discovered a previously unknown variant of the famous map of the world printed...

A new study of lake sediment cores from Sanak Island in the western Gulf of Alaska has suggested that deglaciation there from the last Ice Age took place...

A team of US researchers, including NASA scientists, has found that ancient Antarctica was much warmer and wetter than previously suspected. This artist's...

Researchers from two institutions in Patna, India, have developed an environmentally friendly approach to making silver nanoparticles. Pomegranates at...

A linguistics researcher at the Macquarie University in Australia has discovered that the language, known as Burushaski, which is spoken by about 90,000...

A new study into the biogeography of Antarctica has identified 15 distinct regions on the continent and near-shore islands. 15 Antarctic Conservation Biogeographic...