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New archaeological excavations have revealed repeated phases of human occupation of Umm Jirsan lava tube in the Harrat Khaybar, north-western Saudi Arabia.
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Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected methane emission from CWISEP J193518.59-154620.3 (W1935 for short), an isolated brown dwarf with a temperature of approximately 482 K.
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New research shows for the first time that competition was fundamental to speciation -- the rate at which new species emerge -- across 5 million years of hominin evolution.
The post Interspecific Competition Played Key Role in Rise and Fall of Hominins, Study Suggests appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News ..read more
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Using life on Earth as a guide, astrobiologists from Cornell University and the University of Minnesota looked beyond green landscapes to expand their ability to detect signs of surface life on other worlds.
The post Purple is the New Green: Purple Bacteria Could Dominate Wide Range of Exoplanetary Environments appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News ..read more
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Physicists from the CMS Collaboration at CERN have just publicly released the combination of CMS measurements that contributed to establishing the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012.
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Pluto’s surface is dominated by the huge, pear-shaped basin Sputnik Planitia, which appears to be of impact origin, but modeling has not yet explained its peculiar geometry.
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Tardigrades can survive remarkable doses of ionizing radiation, up to about 1,000 times the lethal dose for humans.
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An international team of scientists has generated the highest quality reference genome to date of the world’s most popular coffee species, Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica).
The post Arabica Coffee Originated More Than 600,000 Years Ago in Ethiopia: Study appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News ..read more
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Archaeologists from Necmettin Erbakan University say they have discovered the world’s oldest known bread, dating back to 6600 BCE, at Çatalhöyük, a renowned Neolithic settlement in central Anatolia, Türkiye.
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The three new species belong to the extinct kangaroo genus Protemnodon, which were common members of Cenozoic communities across Australia and New Guinea until their extinction in the Late Pleistocene.
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