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Something Sparked a Technological Revolution in China 146,000 Years Ago—Archaeologists Have Now Linked It to a Mysterious Extinct Human Species
3+ week, 6+ day ago (853+ words) During the harsh conditions that prevailed in ice age China 146,000 years ago, a remarkable survival strategy was being developed by early humans—something that led to one of the region’s earliest technological revolutions. In a series of recent discoveries at…...
A Mysterious 45,000-Year-Old Seafloor Discovery Reveals New Evidence Denisovans Were Extremely Large??
4+ week, 1+ day ago (863+ words) Mysterious human bones dredged from the seafloor between Taiwan and the Penghu Islands several years ago are providing new insights into the appearance—and the large size—of one of the last ancient human relatives to share the planet with…...
Scientists Have a Plan to Detect Exotic Aliens, New Gamma Wave Glasses, and an Ancient Roman 'Megastructure' Resurfaces
3+ week, 4+ day ago (396+ words) The Debrief Scientists Have a Plan to Detect Exotic Aliens, New Gamma Wave Glasses, and an Ancient Roman ‘Megastructure’ Resurfaces This week in stories we’re covering at The Debrief: Scientists have a new plan that could help them detect alien…...
Archaeologists Unsealed an Ancient Egyptian Tomb and Discovered Something Completely Unexpected Inside
3+ week, 4+ day ago (694+ words) Laguna and the study’s first author. When the researchers examined the second layer, they noted that bodies...
Scientists Used Lasers and Citizen Scientists to Find a “Lost World” of Giant Trees
3+ week, 23+ hour ago (297+ words) fieldwork in Taiwan’s remote mountain regions, researchers have identified an 84.1-meter (276-foot) Taiwania...remain hidden in Taiwan’s rugged interior. The researchers found that the giant trees generally grow at...individual trees exceeding 65 meters in height. The researchers still do not…...
Scientists Discover Ancient Pottery Contains a Magnetic "Clock" That Can Reveal Its Past
1+ week, 4+ day ago (447+ words) pottery may contain a magnetic “clock,” providing researchers with a lasting record of how long ago ceramic...measuring which direction its magnetism points, researchers wondered if they could measure how difficult...its accumulated magnetic signal is to erase. Researchers examined…...
Hidden in Medieval Texts for Centuries, New Genetic Evidence of an Ancient Killer Has Surfaced
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (446+ words) Advances, an international team of interdisciplinary researchers ranging from geneticists and virologists to...these factors made the disease easier for modern researchers to study via vellum samples, it also made it...exciting, surprising discovery is only possible when researchers from…...
4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Tomb Discovery Reveals Something Archaeologists Say They Have Never Seen
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (370+ words) An important Egyptian tomb from the Fifth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom has been discovered in the Saqqara necropolis by a Spanish-Egyptian archaeological mission. Josep Cervelló, an Egyptology professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, led the work, which was…...
A New Organism's "Alien" Reproduction, Levitation and Dark Matter, and Genetic Evidence of an Ancient Killer
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (429+ words) a Museum Collection for More Than a Century, Researchers Have Just Made a Bizarre New Discovery Researchers reveal several new species of a bizarre ocean...If Consciousness Exists Beyond the Brain? Some Researchers Say This “Hard Problem” Requires a Radical…...
Lost Ancient Egyptian City Found? Archaeologists Unveil Mysterious Inscription Linking Excavations to a Fabled Lost City from Egyptian Texts
2+ week, 5+ day ago (547+ words) Researchers from the multi-organizational Egyptian archaeological mission working at Tell Abu...enclosure surrounding an ancient temple. The researchers said this new interpretation contradicts previous...depicting an army scribe carrying a broken naos. The researchers said this discovery highlights the site’s…...