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In the sixth millennium B.C.E. the first farmers reached Western Europe. Who were these people, how did they live, and what was their family structure like? Some of these questions may now be answerable, thanks to gene and isotope...
People standing on a glass floor at the Ostankino tower in Moscow, RussiaNosyrevy/iStockphoto/Getty Images A brain circuit that mediates a fear of heights has been identified in mice, a discovery that could help improve treatments in people with an...
A brain plaque produced by the virus-like prion that causes Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or CJDLABORATOIRE ESCOUROLLE/EURELIOS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY An experimental therapy has dramatically extended the lives of mice infected with prions, which cause conditions like Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD). The news,...
The Vaonis Vespera is your all-in-one ticket to becoming an astrophotographer. Unlike ordinary telescopes, the Vespera does not have an eyepiece – you can't look through it! Instead, the Vespera contains a built-in imaging sensor that captures images of...
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Like an ice skater tucking their arms for an elegant spin, the planet Mars appears to be rotating slightly faster with each passing year. In a paper published June 14 in the journal Nature, astronomers used data from NASA's InSight...
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A pint-size whale that lived 41 million years ago in what is now Egypt was the smallest of its kind and died young, leading researchers to name it after the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, who died at age 18.Called...
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