In a 11-4 vote, the City Council decided to remove the 65-foot-tall monument from its location in the heart of the city
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Dallas City Council Votes to Remove Massive Confederate War Memorial
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Scientific research will help to understand the origin of life in the universe
Until now, in the scientific community there has been the prevailing view that thermal processes associated exclusively with the combustion and high-temperature processing of organic raw materials such as oil, coal, wood, garbage, food, tobacco…
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Oldest Known Macroscopic Skeletal Organism Was Masquerading as Fossilized Feces
Some researchers initially dismissed the remains of Palaeopascichnus lineari as teeny turds from a bygone era
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1,700-Year-Old Sock Spins Yarn About Ancient Egyptian Fashion
This stripy toe sock appears to have warmed the foot of a tot in the late antiquity period
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Scientists tracking the ‘life signature’ of Britain
The British Geological Survey has just released a new interactive web tool that maps out the geographical variation in the isotope signatures of Britain.
This map, which includes strontium, oxygen and sulphur data, enables the determination of the…
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Italy’s oldest olive oil discovered in peculiar pot
Olive oil is a staple of Italian cuisine. It’s been that way for thousands of years. And new chemical analysis conducted on ancient pottery proves the liquid gold has existed in Italy hundreds of years longer than what anthropologists have…
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Earliest European evidence of lead pollution uncovered in the Balkans
New research from Northumbria University has revealed that metal-related pollution began in the Balkans more than 500 years before it appeared in western Europe, and persisted throughout the Dark Ages and Medieval Period, meaning the region…
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Geologists assist in solving the mystery of a gold treasure
The Carambolo Treasure is an assemblage of gold items of the first millennium BCE, whose origin has for about 50 years been the epicentre of a heated debate.
New chemical and isotopic analyses, carried out by the UPV/EHU’s Geochronology and…
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Experiment sheds new light on prehistoric ocean conditions
A new experiment by Iowa State University’s Elizabeth Swanner that evaluates the reduction of iron in prehistoric oceans may reinterpret the conditions under which iron-rich sedimentary rock is formed.
Swanner, an assistant professor of…
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New Research Dispels the Myth That Ancient Cultures Had Universally Short Lifespans
Teeth are key to identifying elderly remains
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