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You Owe Your Life to Rock
Thank goodness for granite. If not for the formation and subsequent erosion of large quantities of metal-rich granite on...
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Are the New Atheists Responsible for the Creationist Menace?
In his Brainstorm blog, Michael Ruse weighs in on the firestorm Robert Wright set off in his recent piece for...
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Relics Attributed to John the Baptist Are From 1st century Middle East
It’s a tantalizing find in a Biblical mystery — Oxford University researchers have concluded that a set of skeletal...
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Still Adapting: Genetic Diversity of ‘Living Fossil’ Coelacanths
The morphology of coelacanths has not fundamentally changed since the Devonian age, that is, for about 400 million years....
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Triple-Bonded Boron Opens New Chemical World
In a vacuum-sealed flask on a lab bench in Germany sits an emerald-green crystal that will cause some jaws...
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NASA Launches Black Hole-Hunting Telescope
NASA’s hunting season has just begun, as the U.S. space agency launched its Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) spacecraft...
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First Painters May Have Been Neanderthal, Not Human
European cave paintings are older than previously thought, raising the possibility that Neanderthals rather than Homo sapiens were the...
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Shark-Headed Human Ancestor Swam With Fishes
Peer far enough back in the human family lineage, and you’ll find a fishy ancestor that looked surprisingly like...
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Alien Earths May Be Widespread in Our Milky Way Galaxy
Small, rocky planets can coalesce around a wide variety of stars, suggesting that Earth-like alien worlds may have formed...
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Unraveling the Bonobo’s Genome, and its Secrets
Ulindi, a female bonobo at the Leipzig Zoo in Germany, has had her genome sequenced, researchers reported, making bonobos...