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June 9, 2022

Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers are losing ice faster than any other time in the last 5,500 years. That history is written in bones and shells. Read more

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May 15, 2012

Prehistoric plants grown in state-of-the-art growth chambers recreating environmental conditions from more than 400 million years ago have shown scientists from the University of Sheffield how soil dwelling fungi played a crucial role in the evolution of plants. Read more

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January 18, 2012

People living along the coast of Peru were eating popcorn 1,000 years earlier than previously reported and before ceramic pottery was used there, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences co-authored by Dolores Piperno, curator of New World archaeology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and emeritus staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Read more

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January 5, 2024

Of more than 400 teeth collected, just 21 were chipped, suggesting that early primate diets were soft on their choppers. Read more

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February 22, 2012

Researchers have discovered an extremely old anthropomorphic figure engraved in rock in Brazil. Read more

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June 26, 2026

This Silicon Valley-backed venture is unraveling the mangled remains of scrolls ruined by the 79 C.E. eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii Read more

Scientific American

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December 2, 2022

Weird new evidence on tooth evolution tips the scales even more toward scales Read more

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October 8, 2024

A possible sacrificial ritual from around 2,800 years ago suggests mounted herders from Siberia shaped a Eurasian culture thousands of kilometers away. Read more

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May 15, 2012

Imagine having arthritis in your jaw bones… if they're over two meters long! A new study by scientists at the University of Bristol has found signs of a degenerative condition similar to human arthritis in the jaw of a pliosaur, an ancient sea reptile that lived 150 million years ago. Such a disease has never been described before in fossilized Jurassic reptiles. Read more

Scientific American

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February 9, 2026

Humans might have been sailing the sea between Greenland and Canada as long as it’s been unfrozen, archaeological evidence suggests Read more