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Modern humans migrated into Europe in 3 waves, 'ambitious and provocative' new study suggests

Modern humans migrated into Europe in three waves: 54,000, 45,000 and 42,000 years ago, a new study claims.

LiveScience · May 3, 2023

1st-century Buddha statue from ancient Egypt indicates Buddhists lived there in Roman times

Buddhists lived in Egypt during Roman times, a 1st-century Buddha statue found in Berenike suggests.

LiveScience · May 2, 2023

Cosmic rays reveal 2,500-year-old subterranean burial in ancient Greek necropolis

Cosmic rays have revealed an underground Greek tomb in Naples, Italy.

LiveScience · May 2, 2023

Why do magnets have north and south poles?

Spinning electrons may help explain why magnets have north and south poles.

LiveScience · Apr 30, 2023

Extremely rare white killer whale spotted off California coast

The mostly white orca calf was spotted by a whale-watching vessel. It most likely has a pigment-related condition called leucism, experts say.

LiveScience · Apr 29, 2023

Are some people actually tone deaf?

Tone deafness, a neurological disorder known as amusia, can make it hard to distinguish between musical pitches.

LiveScience · Apr 29, 2023

Bear kills jogger in Italian Alps. What does this mean for the effort to bring bears back to the region?

26-year-old Andrea Papi was jogging on a woodland path when he was attacked and killed by a bear with three cubs.

LiveScience · Apr 28, 2023

Seemingly 'empty' burial mound is hiding a 1,200-year-old Viking ship

Ground-penetrating radar has revealed the outline of a Viking ship in a mound in southwest Norway that was once thought to be empty.

LiveScience · Apr 28, 2023

Mysterious 'painted people' of Scotland are long gone, but their DNA lives on

A new look at eight skeletons from two Pictish cemeteries reveals that the enigmatic Picts weren't from afar, as medieval historians suggested, but that they had local roots.

LiveScience · Apr 27, 2023

WWII ship that sank with 1,000 Allied POWs on board discovered in South China Sea

The wreck of a Japanese transport ship that sank in 1942 with more than 1,000 Allied prisoners-of-war on board has been discovered near the Philippines.

LiveScience · Apr 27, 2023