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Humans were in South America at least 25,000 years ago, giant sloth bone pendants reveal

Humans were living in Brazil earlier than previously thought, prehistoric sloth-bone pendants suggest.

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Hidden 36 million-year-long cycles may fuel bursts of life on Earth, ancient rocks reveal

As tectonic plates clash and pull apart, sea levels change. This process has shaped marine biodiversity over time, a new study suggests.

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Were Neanderthals really killed off by Campi Flegrei, Europe's awakening 'supervolcano'?

The volcano beneath Italy erupted 40,000 years ago and had catastrophic impact on Earth's climate — around the same time that the Neanderthals began their slow march to extinction.

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We've finally identified the nerve cells in the clitoris and penis that respond to vibration

A new study in mice shows that Krause corpuscles are specialized to respond to vibration and light touch, and are key to normal sexual behavior.

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Ecologist Tim Blackburn: 'Moths pollinate a wider range of species than bees'

With colors ranging from candy pinks to golds and sometimes possessing wingspans as big as a bird's, moths are a fascinating group. Ecologist Tim Blackburn tells Live Science about the incredible, hidden world of moths.

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Mushroom-shaped superplume of scorching hot rock may be splitting Africa in 2

Strange, never-before-seen movements in the East Africa Rift Valley appear to be driven by super-heated rock from deep beneath Earth's surface.

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Did Alexander the Great have any children?

Alexander the Great died at age 32, leaving behind a vast empire. Did he have any heirs to rule in the power vacuum that followed his death?

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Did the Cambrian explosion really happen?

Something unique does seem to have taken place during this time when so many animal groups first appeared, but it's not an open-and-shut case.

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Dozens of 2,500-year-old skeletons unearthed at ancient crossroads in Negev desert

An ancient burial site holding at least 50 skeletons was unearthed in Israel's Negev desert.

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Mushroom-shaped superplume of scorching hot rock may be splitting Africa in 2

Strange, never-before-seen movements in the East Africa Rift Valley appear to be driven by super-heated rock from deep beneath Earth's surface.

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Elephants' giant, hot testicles could stop them getting cancer

Scientist claims elephants' cancer-preventing genes may have evolved to protect their sperm from the scorching hot habitats they live in.

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Could vaccines prevent and treat Alzheimer's disease?

Scientists are testing vaccines as potential treatments for Alzheimer's, in an attempt to reign in harmful immune activity tied to the disease.

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What did the last common ancestor between humans and apes look like?

Did our last common ancestor swing from trees or walk on all fours in the savanna?

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Do the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean mix?

Photos show what looks like a line between the Atlantic and Pacific with different water colors on either side, but is there some kind of barrier or do the two oceans mix?

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Is there an 'up' and a 'down' in space?

Any object with mass distorts the space-time continuum, which we perceive as gravity pulling us "down" toward that object's center.

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Rare streaks of light above US are a sign that solar maximum is fast approaching

The ethereal aurora-like light show could become a more common sight over the next few years as the sun's activity continues to ramp up.

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'Disappearing' Y chromosome in aging men may worsen bladder cancer, mouse study shows

As men get older, they can lose Y chromosomes in a portion of their cells. This could be helping certain cancers evade the immune system.

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Meet 'Fanzor,' the 1st CRISPR-like system found in complex life

Scientists discovered Fanzor proteins, which work like CRISPR but are smaller and more easily delivered into cells, and used them to edit human DNA.

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What do (real) archaeologists think of the legacy of 'Indiana Jones'?

Is Indiana Jones an archaeologist or a looter? Archaeologists dish on the adventurer before the movie premiere of "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny."

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Enigmatic Anglo-Saxon ivory rings discovered in elite burials came from African elephants 4,000 miles away

Hundreds of elite Anglo-Saxon women were buried with mysterious ivory rings. Now, researchers know the ivory came from elephants living about 4,000 miles away from England.

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Rare streaks of light above US are a sign that solar maximum is fast approaching

The ethereal aurora-like light show could become a more common sight over the next few years as the sun's activity continues to ramp up.

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Yellowstone supervolcano magma chamber has far more melted rock than thought

Scientists have worked out the consistency of the magma under the Yellowstone caldera using seismic waves — and the reservoir is filled with "mush" that doesn't pose an imminent eruption threat.

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Adult albatrosses found gnawed to death by mice on 3rd remote island

Mice had previously been seen attacking seabird chicks — but in April researchers found eight dead adults. And this new development is concerning conservationists.

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Where do honey bees come from? New study 'turns the standard picture on its head'

DNA analysis indicates the world's most common bee originated in northern Europe around 780,000 years ago, before spreading into East Africa and Arabia around 120,000 years later.

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Scientists tried to solve the mystery of the helium nucleus — and ended up more confused than ever

Helium is the simplest element in the periodic table with more than one particle in its nucleus, yet state of the art theory and experiments on it don't add up.

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