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Just 45 miles apart, Neanderthals in northern Israel butchered meat in surprisingly d
Roughly 50,000 to 60,000 years ago, two groups of Neanderthals were living in caves less than 45 miles apart in what is now northern Israel. One group called Kebara Cave home—tucked into the limestone slopes of the Carmel Ridge. The other…
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Scientists Discover a Planet That Orbits in 24 Hours and a Giant Ice World That Takes 5 Years
Astronomers have recently uncovered a remarkable planetary system around the faint orange star WASP-132, featuring two exoplanets that couldn’t be more different. One is a rocky world that completes an orbit in just over 24 hours, while the…
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Early Dinosaurs May Have Been Bigger—A Groundbreaking Study Reveals New Clues
A groundbreaking study published in Royal Society Open Science delves into a 225-million-year-old fossil discovered in Zambia, which could dramatically alter our understanding of early dinosaur evolution. The ancient leg bone, believed to belong…
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Scientists Unearth 3.25-Million-Year-Old Mole Fossil That Could Rewrite Evolution
In a groundbreaking study published in Scientific Reports, paleontologists have identified a new mole species, Vulcanoscaptor ninoti, based on an exceptionally well-preserved fossil found at the Pliocene-aged site of Camp dels Ninots in Girona,…
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Meteor impact may have triggered massive Grand Canyon landslide 56,000 years ago
A meteorite impact thousands of years ago may have triggered a landslide in the Grand Canyon and reshaped the Colorado River that runs through the national park.
Geologists studying driftwood and lake sediments found in Stanton’s Cave — in…
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Someone paid $5.3 million for a piece of Mars
Add this to the list of “things that might be fun if you had a buttload of money”: Someone forked over $5.3 million in a Sotheby’s auction to own a piece of Mars. The Red Planet meteorite was discovered in 2023 in a remote area of the Sahara…
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In Its First Year, Rubin Observatory Will Gather More Space Data Than All Other Telescopes In History Combined
Every year, all telescopes on Earth and in space combined discover around 20,000 new asteroids. In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or…
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Exoplanet is shrinking before the X-ray eyes of NASA's Chandra spacecraft: 'The future for this baby planet doesn’t look great' – Space
- Exoplanet is shrinking before the X-ray eyes of NASA’s Chandra spacecraft: ‘The future for this baby planet doesn’t look great’ Space
- NASA’s Chandra Finds Baby Exoplanet is Shrinking NASA (.gov)
- A star is dissolving its baby planet Phys.org
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CP violation in baryons is seen for the first time at CERN – Physics World
CP violation in baryons is seen for the first time at CERN – Physics World