Astronomers have finally confirmed a long‑suspected cosmic oddity, a massive clump of gas and dark matter that looks like a ...
A fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a ...
Archaeologists have discovered Africa’s oldest known cremation pyre at the base of Mount Hora in Malawi. According to a paper ...
Scientists refine the timeline of sponge origins, showing soft-bodied ancestors likely evolved later than some chemical ...
An international team of astronomers led by Canadian researchers has found something the universe wasn't supposed to have: a ...
Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt, uncovered a contender for one of the earliest observed spiral ...
A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...
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