On a cold winter's day in 1980, a group of recreational cavers entered a narrow, wet stream passage south of Knoxville, Tennessee. They navigated a slippery mud slope and a tight keyhole through the cave wall, trudged through ...
Archaeology
Sep 30, 2021
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Cambodian archaeologists have unearthed a large centuries-old statue of a turtle at the Angkor temple complex.
Archaeology
May 7, 2020
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An Oregon State University study has found evidence that Indigenous groups in the Pacific Northwest were intentionally harvesting edible camas bulbs at optimal stages of the plant's maturation as far back as 3,500 years ago.
Archaeology
May 20, 2024
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Chimpanzees don't automatically know what to do when they come across nuts and stones. Researchers at the University of Zurich have now used field experiments to show that chimpanzees thus do not simply invent nut cracking ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 24, 2022
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While some of our body's cells divide in a matter of hours, the process of making sperm, meiosis, alone takes about 14 days from start to finish. And fully six of those days are spent in the stage known as the pachytene, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 25, 2020
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For years, the University of Toronto's Elizabeth Edwards and her team have been developing a potent mix of microbes that can chow down on toxic chemicals. Now, they are preparing to let them loose in the wild for the first ...
Environment
Aug 9, 2019
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Researchers from HSE University have found that people from different cultures evaluate other people's creativity differently. Russians tend to believe that the more unusual a drawing is, the more creative it is, while participants ...
Education
Jan 26, 2022
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Mason Youngblood, a psychologist at City University of New York, has found a way to study cultural conformity bias in groups of people by studying music sampling used on commercially sold songs. In his paper published in ...
Humans are social creatures, but little is known about when, how and why different populations connected in the past. Answering these questions is crucial for interpreting the biological and cultural diversity that we see ...
Archaeology
Dec 20, 2021
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Two years after the scientists in Finland successfully made coffee in a laboratory, VTT Technical Research Center of Finland Ltd has released detailed information on the process. Published in the Journal of Agriculture and ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 12, 2023
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