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Don't miss your last chance to get a good look at Comet A3 before it's gone for another 80,000 years

Fri, 10/18/2024 - 15:23

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bright yellow-white comet A3 in space — Comet A3 is bright, bold, and visible to the naked eye.
Dan Bartlett

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Scientists discovered a unique line of Neanderthals and it's helping solve the mystery of humanity's last great extinction

Wed, 09/25/2024 - 18:41

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A recreation of a Neanderthal on display in a museum — Neanderthals went extinct 40,000 years ago, and researchers are continuing to find clues about why.
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Science, Neanderthals, extinction, Genetics, genome-sequencing

Humans and Neanderthals only had sex for a brief period, but it still fundamentally changed our DNA

Fri, 06/07/2024 - 12:25

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A girl looks through a replica of a Neanderthal skull — Humans have Neanderthal DNA as a result of interbreeding tens of thousands of years ago.
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Scientists discovered 50,000-year-old viruses in Neanderthal DNA that could help explain their mysterious extinction

Thu, 06/06/2024 - 11:31

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A model showing a Neanderthal family near a fire. — An exhibit shows the life of a Neanderthal family in a cave at the Neanderthal Museum in Krapina, Croatia.
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Researchers Reconstruct Neanderthal Face From Crushed 75,000-Year-Old Skull

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 12:15

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A team of researchers used a flattened skull of a female Neanderthal who lived some 75,000 years ago to reconstruct the woman’s likeness, providing an uncannily vision of her appearance in life.

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Glued Blades Are the Oldest Ever Found in Europe—and They Weren't Made by Us

Thu, 02/22/2024 - 15:30

Gizmodo

A trove of Neanderthal tools made between 120,000 and 40,000 years ago were forged with glue, according to a team of researchers that recently studied the objects.