An international team of geoscientists, archaeologists and anthropologists has found evidence that strongly suggests an infant jawbone found in the Ethiopian highlands came from a Homo erectus child. In their study, reported ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft captured this image of the moon's surface on Oct 16, 2022, about 6.5 hours after it flew by the Earth for its first of three gravity assists. The image was taken while Lucy was between the Earth and ...
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Researchers at North Carolina State University show that an important gene in maize called HPC1 modulates certain chemical processes that contribute to flowering time, and has its origins in "teosinte mexicana," a precursor ...
Evolution
Jun 30, 2022
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In a paper recently published in The Planetary Science Journal, NASA scientists and engineers give new details about the agency's Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging (DAVINCI) mission, ...
Planetary Sciences
Jun 2, 2022
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Nine people are dead and two others missing after floods in Sri Lanka and parts of southern India caused by more than a week of pounding rains.
Environment
Nov 8, 2021
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As the driver of global atmospheric and ocean circulation, the tropics play a central role in understanding past and future climate change. Both global climate simulations and worldwide ocean temperature reconstructions indicate ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 15, 2021
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The slowdown in global warming that was observed at the end of last century was reflected by a decrease in malaria transmission in the Ethiopian highlands, according to a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health ...
Environment
Mar 10, 2021
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The absence of monsoon rains at the source of the Nile was the cause of migrations and the demise of entire settlements in the late Roman province of Egypt. This demographic development has been compared with environmental ...
Archaeology
Jan 25, 2021
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In a study published in PNAS, researchers used conservation biology and genomics to discover that the New Guinea singing dog, thought to be extinct for 50 years, still thrives. Scientists found that the ancestral dog population ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 31, 2020
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The Federal Court recently ruled that a timber harvesting company couldn't log potential habitat of the critically endangered Leadbeater's possum.
Ecology
Jun 8, 2020
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