A New Theory on How Neanderthal DNA Spread in Asia
Carl Zimmer MATTER In 2010, scientists made a startling discovery about our past: About 50,000 years ago, Neanderthals interbred with the ancestors of living Europeans and Asians. Now two teams…
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Carl Zimmer MATTER In 2010, scientists made a startling discovery about our past: About 50,000 years ago, Neanderthals interbred with the ancestors of living Europeans and Asians. Now two teams…
In 1882 on Pearl Street, New York City, Thomas Edison opened the world’s first commercial electric grid, lighting up local homes and businesses with cables connected to his power station….
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A century has passed since Albert Einstein published his seminal paper on general relativity, and scientists are still using this iconic theory to explain the world. To Dr. Pedro G….
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Eventually, 24 will be selected to make up six crews of four, which Mars One says they hope to launch to the Red Planet every two years from 2024, with…
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By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 16 (Reuters) – The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital,…
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If it weren’t for Steve Jobs, the iMac may have never come to be. In fact, before the late Jobs became CEO of Apple, the company really wasn’t that interested…
Astronomers have long known that comets are cosmic snowballs with a soft interior and hard surface. But the exact composition of that surface — and how it forms — has…
After analyzing the music of some of hip hop’s biggest artists, from Eminem to Public Enemy, linguists at the University of Manchester in England noticed something pretty impressive. As it…
And now, following the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) mission’s fifth anniversary, we can share in some of the most dramatic and mesmerizing moments of the last half-decade in space. –…
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A report from a cybersecurity firm says an international hacking ring has stolen up to $1 billion from banks around the globe in what would be one of the biggest…
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At age 3, Angelica Lopez is helping to break a sound barrier for deaf children. Born without working auditory nerves, she can detect sounds for the first time — and…
Since its launch in February 11, 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has been busy watching the sun, capturing an image of the magnificent star more than once per second. And…
Two groups of astronomers working independently in Germany have discovered a massive new exoplanet that’s quite strange–for a few reasons. The newfound exoplanet, dubbed Kepler-432b, was monitored by NASA’s Kepler…
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Before she got engaged a couple years ago, Lisa Sokolowski, a blogger in Leland, N.C., rarely mentioned her boyfriend on her regular Twitter account. But after he proposed, she started…
By Abhirup Roy and Alexei Oreskovic Feb 13 (Reuters) – Apple Inc has a secret lab working on the creation of an Apple-branded electric car, the Wall Street Journal reported…