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A skull from China has been identified as Denisovan using molecular evidence – so ancient humans once known solely from their ...

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According to scientific legend, quantum mechanics was born on the island of Helgoland in 1925. A hundred years later, ...

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While not all cultures have a literal word for 'please' or 'thank you', they have other ways to signal gratitude and ...

It is possible to write any number as a sum of unit fractions (fractions with 1 on top) with different denominators. For ...

There are hundreds of TV apocalypses to choose from, but The Eternaut, a fresh and compelling adaptation of a classic ...