Today they are a male fashion accessory, adored by hipsters and spurned by clean-shaven creatives. But in the 19th century, men associated beards and whiskers with manliness, strength and even male beauty.
Archaeology
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Scientists from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) are part of an international team that has discovered minute fluctuations in Saturn's gravitational field using several thousand images of the planet's moons obtained ...
Space Exploration
Nov 21, 2016
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Published today in the open-access journal GigaScience, is an article that presents the genome sequence of Ginkgo biloba, the oldest extant tree species. The research was carried out by a team of scientists at BGI, Zheijiang ...
Biotechnology
Nov 21, 2016
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Hundreds of years before the first Thanksgiving, Native Americans were raising and feasting on America's classic holiday meal.
Archaeology
Nov 21, 2016
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It has just become harder for surprise meteor showers to escape our attention.
Space Exploration
Nov 21, 2016
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The findings of a study exploring how social class influences students' experiences in higher education have been revealed in a new book.
Social Sciences
Nov 21, 2016
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Roughly once a year, the smallest Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment, LHC-forward (LHCf), is taken out of its dedicated storage on the site near the ATLAS experiment, reinstalled in the LHC tunnel, and put to use investigating ...
General Physics
Nov 21, 2016
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(Science X)—It was a big week for space science as a team with members from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and the University of Göttingen found that a distant star was the roundest object ever observed ...
The question of whether there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe has been asked by people for many years.
Astronomy
Nov 21, 2016
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DNA makes up only half of the material inside chromosomes – far less than was previously thought – a study has revealed.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 21, 2016
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