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Shock find brings extinct mouse back from the dead
A species of mouse believed to be extinct for over 150 years has unexpectedly been rediscovered by reseachers in Australia.Gould’s mouse, long believed to have...
Astronomers uncover evidence that there could be many more Earth-sized planets...
New findings from a team using the international Gemini Observatory and the WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory suggest that Earth-sized worlds...
‘Dragon man’ fossil may replace Neanderthals as our closest relative
A near-perfectly preserved ancient human fossil known as the Harbin cranium sits in the Geoscience Museum in Hebei GEO University. The largest of Homo...
Antarctic lake suddenly disappears
A large, deep, ice-covered lake has rapidly disappeared on the surface of an Antarctic ice shelf, probably due to the water’s own weight. The rare...
Cosmic dawn occurred 250 to 350 million years after Big Bang
Analysing images from the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, the researchers calculated the age of these galaxies as ranging from 200 to 300 million...
Comet strike may have sparked civilisation shift
A cluster of comet fragments believed to have hit Earth nearly 13,000 years ago may have shaped the origins of human civilisation, research suggests.
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Researchers find 3,000-year-old shark attack victim
A combination of archaeological science and forensic techniques have helped to show that his body is the earliest direct evidence of a shark attack.
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Crushing climate impacts to hit sooner than feared: draft UN report
A draft copy of the upcoming Working Group II (WG2) report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), on the impacts of climate...
‘Flashed’ nanodiamonds are just a phase, research team finds
Nanodiamonds were first discovered in the 1960s and are microscopic crystals—or regions of crystals—that display the same carbon-atom lattice that macro-scale diamonds do. They...
Is dark matter real, or have we misunderstood gravity?
Research shows that certain galaxies deviate from foundation theories of gravity. Scientists are looking into the possibility of relearning gravity in order to understand...
One of the largest ever land mammals evolved into extinct dwarf...
Sicilian dwarf elephant Palaeoloxodon cf. mnaidriensis lived on the island of Sicily and went extinct 19,000 years ago. A new study shows that an extinct...
