A mysterious 40,000-year-old hip bone suggests human ancestors and Neanderthals shared a cave — and perhaps a culture

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A child looks into the eyes of a model Neanderthal at the Neanderthal Museum in Germany. Scientists think they've uncovered evidence early European humans may have shared a cave with Neanderthals, and maybe even a culture.

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Scientists have completely sequenced the human Y chromosome for the first time, with huge implications for heath and evolution research

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DNA testing.

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5,000-year-old cauldrons of the Bronze Age are so well preserved they offer archeologists the 'first evidence' of an ancient feast consisting of milk and meat

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A 5,000-year-old Bronze Age cauldron that's very oxidized and a artist rendering if what it looked like when used by the Maykop people
One of the 5,000-year-old pots where reseaerchers found animal proteins (left). An artist reconstructed what the cauldron would look like toady (right).

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Black holes can speed through the universe at 17,500 miles per second, scientists say — and the discovery could reveal new laws of physics

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Black holes can get caught in each others gravitational grip and either collide or recoil.

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Watch the historic moment India successfully lands on the south pole of the moon, beating the US, China, and Russia

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Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3, the word for "moon craft" in Sanskrit, travels after it was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India.

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India is the first country to land at the Moon's south pole

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India just made spaceflight history in more ways than one. The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft's Vikram lander has successfully touched down on the Moon, marking the country's first successful landing on the lunar surface. It's just the fourth country to do so after the Soviet Union, US and China.

A mysterious green comet is approaching Earth and could be visible to the naked eye soon. Here's how to see it.

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A green comet, called ISON, passing the Earth about ten years ago. Astronomers have spotted another comet with a green tail, comet Nishimura, which could be seen with the naked eye from Earth in early to mid-September.

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The looming crisis that's going to crush homeowners from coast to coast

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As the risk of wildfires and storms grows, owning a home is getting riskier — and it's showing up in the insurance market.

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Cinda Larimer was delivering newspapers on a cool November morning in Paradise, California, when she noticed something softly float down from the sky: ash.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals a secret star Hubble missed, maybe solving the mystery of a dying star's multi-layered nebula

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the Ring Nebula in unprecedented detail with its mid-infrared instrument.

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Watch the last billion years of Earth's tectonic plate movement in just 40 seconds

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Tourists walk on a boardwalk in a Rift Valley exposing the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates, at Thingvellir National Park, Iceland
Tourists walk between a rift in the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates at at Thingvellir National Park, Iceland.

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