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140,000-year-old child’s skull may have been part modern human, part Neanderthal — but not everyone is convinced

140,000-year-old child’s skull may have been part modern human, part Neanderthal — but not everyone is convinced

The child’s skull has a mix of features that appear to align with both modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. (Image credit: Israel Hershkovitz/Tel Aviv University) One of the earliest known human burials — that of a young child — could have been a cross between modern humans and Neanderthals, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed a skull that was found …

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A Ghostly Crab Trail Leads to One of the Ocean’s Greatest Discoveries

A Ghostly Crab Trail Leads to One of the Ocean’s Greatest Discoveries

In a remarkable discovery off the western coast of the Galápagos Islands, scientists have pinpointed a previously unknown hydrothermal vent field, thanks to a trail of ghostly crabs. For over 20 years, researchers had suspected the presence of this underwater feature but had struggled to identify its exact location. However, a team of researchers recently followed a series of squat …

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“We Engineered the Perfect Space Food”: US Scientists Unveil Super-Dwarf Plant Designed to Keep Astronauts Alive and Thriving on Years-Long Missions to Mars

“We Engineered the Perfect Space Food”: US Scientists Unveil Super-Dwarf Plant Designed to Keep Astronauts Alive and Thriving on Years-Long Missions to Mars

IN A NUTSHELL 🌾 The Moon-Rice project is developing “super-dwarf” rice to support long-duration space missions and extreme Earth environments. 🛰️ Led by the Italian Space Agency, the project involves collaboration between three Italian universities specializing in rice genetics, crop physiology, and space crop production. 🔬 The research focuses on using CRISPR-Cas technology to create compact, productive rice varieties that …

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Tiny Owl Opens His Eyes For The First Time Thanks To A ‘Miracle’

Tiny Owl Opens His Eyes For The First Time Thanks To A ‘Miracle’

Last month, the staff at Raven Ridge Wildlife Center (RRWC) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, received a distressing call from a man over an hour away in Halifax. The man seemed frantic as he described the tiny feathered baby he’d just spontaneously rescued from a dangerous situation. “A kind-hearted man named Michael spotted the tiny creature alongside the road and instinctively pulled …

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Science museum discovers dinosaur fossils hidden under its parking lot – The Washington Post

Science museum discovers dinosaur fossils hidden under its parking lot  The Washington Post A Denver dino museum makes a find deep under own parking lot. Like ‘a hole in one from the moon.’  ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos Museum discovers rare 67-million-year-old dinosaur bone under its own parking lot  Fox News Denver museum discovers nearly 70-million-year-old fossil under parking …

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Ranked, the 10 most likely ways the world will end: From supervolcanoes to nuclear war, experts say these are the deadliest threats to humanity – including one that could lead to everybody on Earth falling dead at the same moment

Ranked, the 10 most likely ways the world will end: From supervolcanoes to nuclear war, experts say these are the deadliest threats to humanity – including one that could lead to everybody on Earth falling dead at the same moment

Humanity’s future can look pretty gloomy. From asteroids the size of football stadiums to nuclear war and man-made pandemics, it can seem as if humankind is in constant danger of being wiped out – and, in many ways, it is. Over the past three years, I have interviewed hundreds of experts working to prevent Doomsday, from eminent scientists and engineers …

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