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Archaeological evidence shows that 30,000 years ago, Palaeolithic people travelled from the island now known as Taiwan to the ...

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A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the world were wiped out, disrupting the carbon cycle and ensuring that Earth re ...

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

Scientists have found evidence of new brain cells sprouting in adults - a process that many thought only occurred in children ...

The US Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted in June to stop recommending certain kinds of flu vaccines, a ...

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A lab experiment that simulated Mars conditions showed that green algae can grow in plastic containers made from the same ...

Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. Elephant ...