Name: Dolní Vĕstonice Portrait HeadWhat it is: A face carved out of mammoth ivoryWhere it is from: The South Moravian…
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Anyone who has watched a rooster stalking around a farmyard might agree that there is something very dinosaur-like about birds.…
Strange, flat patches on the teeth of ancient Europeans have puzzled archaeologists for centuries. But one researcher thinks he’s solved…
Ever since Charles Darwin detailed the mechanism of evolution by means of natural selection in 1859, scientists have had a…
In 1983 archaeologists excavating a cave in South Africa discovered an unusual femur bone. It belonged to an unspecified antelope…
What it is: An open cluster of stars called NGC 346Where it is: 210,000 light-years away, in the constellation TucanaWhen…
Modern computers are a triumph of technology. A single computer chip contains billions of nanometre-scaled transistors that operate extremely reliably…
There are eight planets in the solar system, and each travels on its own path around the sun. But of…
The little muscles that enable people to wiggle their ears unconsciously flex when we’re trying to pick one sound out…
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