The animals that plummeted 85 feet into Wyoming’s Natural Trap Cave provide a layered history of life dating back to the Pleistocene
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Journey Into a Prehistoric Cave That Trapped and Entombed Animals for Millennia
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Polar bears are being poisoned by mercury dumped a century ago
Mercury pollution from the early days of coal burning and gold mining is still poisoning Arctic wildlife more than a century later, according to a new study in Nature Communications.
Despite global efforts to curb emissions, mercury levels in…
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Poland’s medieval Piast kings: DNA testing of skeletons reveals Scottish roots
For two centuries, scholars have sparred over the roots of the Piasts, Poland’s first…
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This is the largest map of the universe ever made, and anyone can explore it
The universe is a big place, and while we’re still unraveling the mysteries of the early universe, the James Webb Space Telescope has given us unprecedented looks at the cosmos around our little blue dot. Now, a massive trove of data…
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Solar Orbiter offers first glimpse of sun’s poles in breakthrough mission
The first-ever images of the sun’s south pole have been captured by the robotic Solar…
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The ESA just snapped the first photos of the Sun’s south pole
The European Space Agency has achieved yet another “first” for humankind by capturing the first photos of the Sun’s south pole. These images were captured by the agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft, and it gives us our first…
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The EPA Wants to Roll Back Emissions Controls on Power Plants
Zeldin and lawmakers who spoke on Tuesday praised the original MATS rule, portraying the 2024 update as an overreach by the Biden administration that imposed undue costs on the fossil fuel industry. (“We’re not eliminating MATS,” Zeldin…
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3,500 years ago, someone packed cheese for the afterlife. Here’s why
It is difficult to trace the oldest cheese in the world, although we have direct evidence that humans have consumed milk for thousands of years.
Archaeologists have identified milk residues on ancient pots unearthed from many regions of the…
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Why do kids love reading the same book over and over? Child development experts explain.
It’s 7:30 p.m., and if you’re the parent of a toddler, you’re likely in the…
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Lab-grown salmon is now being served in a US restaurant
There’s an entirely new world of food developing right in front of us and it comes in the form of lab-grown meats. While we’ve already seen quite a few advancements in this field over the past couple of years, the newest is the…
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