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Wooden structure discovered that was built 300,000 years before Homo sapiens

  Archaeologists working at Kalambo Falls in northern Zambia have uncovered two large wooden logs that once formed part of…

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Your city looks clean, but the 2025 Global Air Pollution Report says otherwise

      Polluted air contributed to 7.9 million deaths worldwide, or about one in every eight deaths. Those numbers…

4 days ago

Chimpanzee calls trigger a distinct response in the human brain

A small patch in the human auditory cortex responds more to chimpanzee calls than to other primate sounds. In 23…

5 days ago

New life forms found in the human body, discovery described by scientists as ‘insane’

      Humans carry around a busy community of microbes that help run daily life. This microbiome breaks down…

1 week ago

Scientists get peacock feathers to emit laser beams – but why would they want to?

        Peacock feathers are famous for vivid iridescent colors, yet a new study shows they can also…

1 week ago

Mountain birds are climbing higher every year to escape warming

  European peaks form ancient corridors for birds seeking cool air, food-rich slopes and safe nesting pockets. Rising heat now…

1 week ago

Forest soils release less nitrogen as moisture disappears

    For years, scientists assumed one thing about warming forests: heat up the soil, and microbes would speed up,…

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About 7,000 years ago, the Sahara desert was green, and now we know who lived there

  About 7,000 years ago, two women were laid to rest in a rocky shelter in today’s southwestern Libya. Their…

2 weeks ago

Satellite captures the first detailed look at a giant tsunami

  When a magnitude 8.8 earthquake ripped through the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone on July 29, 2025, it launched a Pacific-wide…

3 weeks ago

Ancient microbes frozen for 40,000 years revive, reorganize, and begin to devour carbon

  Microbes entombed in deep permafrost, ground that stays frozen for at least 2 years, can switch back on after…

4 weeks ago

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