Category: 7. Science

For a long time, Paranthropus boisei, a hominid that inhabited the Earth from 2.6 million years ago to 1.3 million years ago, had been considered by experts to be a relative of humans. Its robust jaw, large molars, and powerful chewing muscles…

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have uncovered what may be the first physical remnants of “proto-Earth,” the original version of our planet that existed before a massive collision reshaped it into the world we…

Lead is often thought of as a modern toxin, but a new study has found that it’s been haunting us and our ancestors for almost 2 million years. Stranger still, exposure could actually have given humans an edge over our closest relatives.

An…

Ripples in spacetime from both the merger of supermassive black holes and from the Big Bang can potentially be distinguished by the “beats” one of them plays, a new study suggests.

During the moment of the Big Bang, “quantum fluctuations” in the…

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