Professor Ron Clarke busy excavating the Little Foot Skull from the Sterkfontein Caves.
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South Africa's status as a major cradle in the African nursery of humankind has been reinforced with today's unveiling of "Little Foot," the country's oldest,...
The number of likes, shares, comments and positive feedback travelers expect to get on social media can affect where they choose to go, say researchers, who used the Social Return Scale to predict whether people would travel to Cuba.
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We spend a lot of time listening to our own inner speech. But to what extent does the brain distinguish between inner speech and the sounds we produce when we speak out loud?
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Experts say the only way to ensure your window blinds are safe for children is to remove all corded blinds and replace them with blinds like these that do not have operating or accessible internal cords.
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Heavy London traffic. (Stock image)
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Exposure to air pollution on city streets is enough to counter the beneficial health effects of exercise in older adults, according to new research.
The findings, published in The...
Polling is still the best way to predict election outcomes, say researchers.
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Donald Trump's surprising election as president of the United States was viewed by some people as evidence that electoral polling no longer works, but...
A NASA team scanned these terrestrial rock samples, all measuring two to four inches in diameter, to investigate possibilities for future in-space use of non-destructive evaluation techniques. The two rock samples on the bottom are from Earth's newest volcanic...
This is an artist's impression of the cool red star above NGTS-1b.
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A giant planet, which should not exist according to planet formation theory, has been discovered around a distant star. The new research is...
Thomas Gaumnitz, postdoctoral fellow in the group of ETH professor Hans Jakob Wörner with the setup that generates the shortest laser pulses in the world.
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In order to fully understand the dynamics during a chemical reaction, scientists...
A tiny treeshrew brain saps just as much of the body's energy as a human brain, researchers report. Shown in red are the blood vessels that deliver glucose to fuel cellular activities.
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"Scientists have a solid understanding of the physics of sea level fingerprints, but we've never had a direct detection of the phenomenon until now," says study co-author Isabella Velicogna, a UCI professor of Earth system science and Jet Propulsion...
