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Past the agricultural revolution, there’s something of a sea-change in how dogs are found in the archaeological record. They ...
The Wild Ones contend with rapids, bees, and poachers’ snares to gather critical data on one of the world’s rarest tigers.
Six years ago, a Dutch-led telescope on the Chinese Chang’e-4 demonstrated that it is possible to do radio astronomy from ...
O rcas are easily recognized by their jet-black bodies punctuated with striking white markings, most notably the “eye patch” ...
A fter more than 40 years of exploration and excavations at the ancient Maya city of Caracol, researchers have finally unearthed a tomb belonging to one of its rulers. Even more significantly, the ...
James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, ...
The crater in Western Australia was identified as the oldest in the world earlier this year, but new research suggests the ...
Because it has natural language capabilities – powered by the same kind of machine learning that underpins ChatGPT – the ...
One Salome is mentioned in the apocryphal Gospel of James as an associate of the unnamed midwife present at Christ’s birth.
From 1835 to 1954, a surge of dam building in North America and Europe nudged the poles toward the equator. During this ...
We spoke to the first author of a new study that could challenge much of what we thought we knew about Alzheimer’s disease.
Pseudoscorpions are tiny scorpion-like arachnids. They are found in many habitats across Earth, but some never see the light ...