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The Rodents of Chicago Are Evolving in Real Time, Scientists Say
Urbanization has had visible morphological effects on chipmunks and voles in the Chicago metro area. While both chipmunks and ...
Archaeologists Found a Lost Temple From a Civilization That Vanished 1,000 Years Ago
The Tiwanaku civilization was one of the first and most powerful in the Andes region, but by 1000 A.D., it had collapsed.
Archaeologists Excavated One of America's Oldest Schools—and Found a Secret Cellar
The Williamsburg Bray School is one of the oldest schools in the United States to educate Black students. Archeologists ...
Scientists Found a Secret Weapon That May Stop Blindness Before It Starts
A new study identifies how the molecule, called ApoM, can clear harmful cholesterol deposits linked to macular degeneration ...
Workers Were Laying a Gas Pipeline—and Uncovered a 1,000-Year-Old Child Mummy
The environment along Peru’s coastline often naturally mummifies remains. Workers laying new natural gas pipeline in Lima, Peru, unexpectedly found something else entirely natural: A 1,000-year-old ...
GE’s Smart Window A/C Got Me Through This Week’s Heat Wave, Thanks to This One Powerful Feature
It’s worth noting customer service was as fast and helpful as they can be, and the GE comes with a one-year warranty from the ...
Ancient People Claimed to Hear the Northern Lights Pop and Fizz—And the Legends Are True, Scientists Say
Here’s why some people say they hear cracking and popping from an atmospheric event that shouldn’t be able to produce any sound.
A Scientist Says the Universe May Have a Memory of Its Own
A new hypothesis called the “quantum memory matrix” could solve long-standing physics questions, including the Black Hole ...
Scientists Confirmed This 146,000-Year-Old Skull Belongs to a Lost Human Species
In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...
Scientists Have Discovered a New Blood Type. Only One Person on Earth Has It.
Scientists from the French Blood Establishment (EFS) has successfully identified the ultra-rare 48 th blood type group, known ...
The Pharoah’s Curse Once Killed Archaeologists. Now It Could Help Fight Cancer.
The toxic fungus Aspergillus flavus— known as the “Pharaoh’s Curse” due to its role in the deaths of archaeologists who ...
Archaeologists Found 23,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Where They Shouldn’t Exist
Researchers determined that footprints in White Sands National Park in New Mexico are from the oldest migrants to North ...