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For decades, anthropologists lumped these ancient populations into a single species, Homo heidelbergensis, long believed to ...

One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists to understand for the first time how and why certain materials conduct ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered an unusually hot 12 billion year-old gas cluster that challenges everything we thought we ...

A new study enhances hydrogen molecule predictions, achieving unprecedented precision in testing fundamental physics and ...

Mice are indispensable in biomedical research due to their genetic and anatomical similarities to humans, short lifespans, ...

In the early 1960s, a young scientist entered a cave in the French Alps intending to study glacial formations. What followed ...

Cacio e pepe pasta and boiled eggs were the subjects of meticulous studies aiming to help cooks achieve perfection, but the ...

They asked them to imagine vividly, for 8 seconds, a positive or a negative experience based on a prompt sentence—for ...

Neutrinos may be nearly invisible, but they play a starring role in the Universe. Long-standing anomalies had hinted at a ...