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A dog skull recently found in the Altai mountains in Siberia, Russia shows the earliest signs of domestication ever to...

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Researchers from Cleveland have managed to create an artificial lung that reaches an efficiency comparable to that of the real...

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A long sought after Trojan asteroid has been finally found ! Trojan asteroids share almost the same orbit as Earth,...

Dolphins are absolutely amazing creatures, smarter beyond whatever you might think, and with a heart of gold. But now, researchers...

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In what is a slap in the face of science, scientists at the University of Illinois have demonstrated that in...

Researchers from the University of Liverpool have found ancient footprints in Laetoli, Tanzania, suggesting the fact that human-like features of...

NASA astronomers believe they have found a long lost space probe from the 1960s, the one which took "the picture...

For the first time, astronomers have been able to zoom in on the last gasps of a dying star in...

Yasuteru Yamada is a man just like any other, except he isn't just like any other. "Let the young rebuild...

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There seems to be a global trend against atomic energy, even though coal is much, much more dangerous in the...

Mark Frank has been studying the faces of people lying when the stakes are high for over two decades, being...

Researchers from the CalTech University have managed to create the first artificial neural network from DNA, a circuit built out...

In what can only be described as an emotional moment, the space shuttle Atlantis landed before dawn at Kennedy Space...

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Recently, researchers from the Texas A&M University have returned from a trip which had the purpose of estimating the extend...

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It seems that recently, science is finally beginning to corner the HIV virus. Last week, two studies had the same...

The northern white-cheeked crested gibbon is running out of places to live in - literally. Perhaps the only habitat they...

According to a study conducted by Deborah Barnes, PhD, a mental health researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center,...

The relatively new theory of plate tectonics is still uncertain about what is the driving force behind the tectonic movement;...

There has been a long standing debate regarding the Neanderthal people, and what kind of legacy we carry from them....

First of all, I hope you're having a great Summer so far, and I apologize for my leap of absence...

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It was 1893 when Orlando Ferguson, a real estate developer based in South Dakota combined religious beliefs with some scientific...

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