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A Single Migration From Africa Populated the World, Studies Find
Unprecedented DNA analyses of people in indigenous populations suggests that almost all non-Africans trace their roots to one migration from the continent.
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CreditSeales et al. Sci. Adv. 2016; 2 : e1601247 Modern Technology Unlocks Secrets of a Damaged Biblical Scroll
Experts using a computer imaging program have virtually unwrapped a heavily damaged ancient scroll and recovered a fragment of the authoritative text of the Hebrew Bible.
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CreditBilly H.C. Kwok for The New York Times Laser Scans Unveil a Network of Ancient Cities in Cambodia
Beyond the famed Angkor Wat temple, a technology known as lidar is allowing archaeologists to map and find the ancient Khmer empire’s intricate urban landscape.
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CreditLawrence Azerrad/LADesign Music for Aliens: Campaign Aims to Reissue Carl Sagan’s Golden Record
The recording, sent into space for aliens to hear, included sounds of Earth, music and greetings from around the world.
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CreditBrett Seymour/EUA-WHOI, via Argo Human Remains Found at Ancient Roman-Era Shipwreck
Underwater archaeologists found 2,000-year-old bones at the Greek island Antikythera site.
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CreditJeff Swensen for The New York Times A Lesson of Tesla Crashes? Computer Vision Can’t Do It All Yet
Self-driving cars come with a caveat now: Keep your hands on the wheel. While computers can recognize images, understanding actions and behaviors are still the next frontier.
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Credit A River Otter’s Hot Spot? The Latrine
Male coastal river otters in Alaska have a complex social life that centers on a common latrine, where they pick up information about their colleagues.
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CreditScott McIntyre for The New York Times Predict Zika’s Spread? It’s Hard Enough to Count the Cases
Many cases are likely to go unreported; few cause symptoms, and hundreds of women in Florida are waiting weeks just to get test results.
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CreditElwood H. Smith Whatever We Dig Up, We’ll End Up Buried
In our search for discovery and meaning, we always look up and out, while we hardly know anything about what is going on, or what went on, under our own feet.
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Credit Doug Gimesy The Changing Clock of Australia’s Little Penguins
City lights and climate change are among the factors affecting the smallest penguin species. Somehow these popular birds are managing, with a few changes in schedule.
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CreditJeffrey C. Splitstoser et al. People Have Been Dyeing Fabric Indigo Blue for 6,000 Years
Before there were bluejeans there were blue Egyptian mummy cloths. Before blue mummy cloths? Possibly blue offerings to ancient Andean gods.
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CreditDavid Jewitt/UCLA/NASA-ESA A Cosmic Comet Breakup
When astronomers saw Comet 332P/Ikeya-Murakami 150 million miles from the sun last January, it was in two dozen pieces.
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CreditChristopher J. Raxworthy/American Museum of Natural History The New Ghost Snake in Madagascar
Scientists discovered Madagoscarophis lolo, a new species of snake, on a rocky plateau in northern Madagascar.
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CreditBlazej Blazejowski Marching One by One, Trilobites Traversed the Seafloor
Some 365 million years ago, eyeless trilobites lined up and were some of the earliest examples of animal mass migration.
