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Prehistoric humans may have stuck pikes in ground to kill mammoths, say experts | Anthropology
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When it came to taking down giant animals, prehistoric hunters would quite literally have faced a mammoth task. Now researchers have shed ...
Neuroscience needs a career path for software engineers
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In the past decade, neuroscience datasets and the scale of scientific collaborations have grown dramatically in size. With the advent of cutting-edge ...
Oldest-known penis discovered in 425-million-year-old crab fossil
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The oldest penis in the world, as it turns out, belongs to an ancient crustacean astonishingly well-preserved in volcanic ash 425 million ...
Ancient Babylonian tablet makes 61 terrifying predictions for planet earth | Tech News
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The 4,000-year-old artifact was found more than 100 years ago in Iraq (Picture: The Trustees of the British Museum/Getty) A Babylonian tablet ...
Perseverance Mars rover begins 820-foot climb up ‘Witch Hazel Hill’
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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is about to begin the next leg of its epic Red Planet journey, and its final destination is ...
‘Banana apocalypse’ could be averted thanks to genetic breakthrough
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Researchers have made a breakthrough in the race to save the world’s bananas from a devastating disease that could wipe them out, ...
Fossil hotspots in Africa obscure a more complete picture of human evolution, study says
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Much of the early human fossil record originates from just a few places in Africa, where favorable geological ...
The mind-bending mirrors behind advanced technology
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Dr Elise Vernet is an adaptive optics specialist at ESO and has been overseeing development of the five giant mirrors that will ...
Tianwen-1 Unveils the Red Planet in Breathtaking High Resolution
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Chinese scientists have achieved a remarkable breakthrough in Mars exploration by unveiling a high-resolution global color-image map of Mars. Created using data ...
Late-phase solar flares could be more dangerous for Earth’s communication than thought, new study suggests | Science & Tech News
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Later-stage solar flares could be more disruptive to communication systems than previously thought, according to new research. While it’s well known the ...
