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Pockets of green adventure are all around; simply seize the moment to wander outdoors

A much-needed hike into the wilderness offers a few surprises, including an unexpected level of solitude

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Таинственная группа вымерших людей, известных как денисовцы, меняет наши представления об эволюции человека, пишет британский журнал. Кто они такие? С момента находок в Денисовой пещере на юге Сибири прошли годы, и ученые надеются, что отыщут новые останки этой древней поп...

Expectations at the Potentially History Changing Site Ashok Khemka, principal secretary to government archaeology and museums department of Haryana, said that although a team from the department has conducted a preliminary study, further investigations will be undertaken. Archaeologists could, however, be getting ahead of themselves. Dating exercises at similar sites in India have been limited to analysis of the type of tools discovered. Nevertheless, in this case most of the cave paintings w...

© C-Dental X-ray, Inc. Wisdom teeth cannot emerge properly when the jaw is too short, as occurs when children are raised on foods that are easier to chew than the ones we evolved to eat. Subtle differences in the oral microbiomes from ancient plaque samples in southern Europe point to potentially gradual agricultural transitions during the Neolithic age, new research suggests, but more significant microbial shifts happened later on. "[T]he Neolithic is a gradual and slow process, and in parti...

kokkai/iStock via Getty Images Plus From an island infested with snakes to a vault holding a very special secret recipe, check out a few of the many dangerous, mysterious, or otherwise forbidden places are off-limits to the general public, adapted from an episode of The List Show on YouTube. 1. Ilha da Queimada Grande Ilha da Queimada Grande, or “Snake Island,” is an island off the coast of Brazil that’s home to a rare and incredibly deadly species of snake called the golden lancehead. Ac...

Grâce à une datation carbone de précision et à des contextes archéologiques sûrs, les chercheurs ont prouvé pour la première fois que les deux cultures se chevauchaient - et où

Around 19,000 years ago, a woman  ̶  possibly a woman of some special status  ̶  from a group of hunter-gatherers died and was buried in El Mirón Cave in northern Spain. In 1996, archaeologists started exploring the cave, finding abundant evidence of prehistoric people. In 2010 Lawrence Straus, Emeritus Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor at The University of New Mexico, and a Spanish student found the woman’s remains, including her jaw, after Straus had what he described as “a hunc...

    Do terrestrial geomagnetic field reversals have an effect on Earths climate? Cooper et al.created a precisely dated radiocarbon record around the time of the Laschamps geomagnetic reversal about 41,000 years ago from the rings of New Zealand swamp kauri trees. This record reveals a substantial increase in the carbon-14 content of the atmosphere culminating during the period of weakening magnetic field strength preceding the polarity switch. The authors modeled the consequences of th...