The fossil skull that rocked the world – 100 years later scientists are grappling with the Taung find’s complex colonial legacy
The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...
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Scientists make stunning 5,900-year-old discovery buried in the Rocky Mountains: 'A window into [the] past'
Using carbon dating, Montana State University researchers found the clutch of 30 whitebark pine trees were between 5,440 and ...
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20 Years of Discovery: How Has the Periodic Table Changed Over Time?
The periodic table organizes chemical elements based on atomic weight, electron configurations, and chemical properties, ...
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Cretaceous fossil from Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird
Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...
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How Noether’s Theorem Revolutionized Physics
Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are just a consequence of simple symmetries. A century later, her insights ...
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The Search to Find the Remains of Homo Erectus in a Vanishing Landscape
A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...