76,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Hunting Camp Discovered In Madrid In Madrid, archaeologists have uncovered an ancient camp where Neanderthals conducted ‘hunting parties’ 76,000 years ago to chase down big bovids and deer. Archaeologists think it is the largest such camp in the Iberian Peninsula region, with a total area of 3,200 square feet (300 square meters). They think it may have acted […]
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A Physicist Claims He’s Figured Out Why We Haven’t Met Aliens Yet, And It’s Pretty Worrying The question “where is everyone?” is the crux of the Fermi Paradox. If life on Earth is not particularly special and unique, where are all the alien civilizations? Many explanations have been proposed to explain why we seem to be alone in the vast […]
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90,000-year-old human hybrid found in ancient cave It turns out blended families aren’t just the result of two previously established families coming together. A blended family could also be the result of two ancient human species procreating, for example, and creating an ancient human hybrid. This is according to a genetic analysis of a bone fragment belonging to a young, […]
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There may be more than 36 intelligent alien civilizations in the Milky Way, scientists say They may not be little green men. They may not arrive in a vast spaceship. But according to new calculations, there could be more than 30 intelligent civilisations in our galaxy today capable of communicating with others. Experts say the work not only offers insights […]
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2,000-year-old Flower Bouquet in ‘Very Good Condition’ Found Under Mexican Pyramid Nearly 2,000 years ago, the ancient people of Teotihuacan wrapped bunches of flowers into beautiful bouquets, laid them beneath a jumble of wood and set the pile ablaze. Now, archaeologists have found the remains of those surprisingly well-preserved flowers in a tunnel snaking beneath a pyramid of the ancient […]
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In a record-breaking 24 months, the TESS space telescope discovered almost 2000 alien worlds Astronomers have summed up the results of the main scientific program of the TESS space telescope. In two years, it found 2,241 exoplanet candidates, of which about 120 have already been confirmed. Among them are mini-Neptunes, super-earths, naked planetary cores, as well as objects in white […]
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7,000-Year-Old Native American ‘Bog Burial’ Found Off the Coast of Florida The 167 bodies discovered in a pond in Windover, Florida started to stir up excitement in the archaeological world only after the bones were declared very old, and not the product of mass murder. Researchers from Florida State University came to the site, believing that in the swampland some […]
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Advanced Alien Civilizations From 2,000 Star Systems Could Have “Discovered” Life On Earth Astronomers have compiled a list of 2,034 star systems in which presumed alien civilizations could have or can see the passage of the Earth across the disk of the Sun. It turned out that 46 such stars are located within a hundred light-years and can not only […]
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A new clue to human evolution’s biggest mystery emerges in the Philippines Denisovans are an elusive bunch, known mainly from ancient DNA samples and traces of that DNA that the ancient hominids shared when they interbred with Homo sapiens. They left their biggest genetic imprint on people who now live in Southeast Asian islands, nearby Papua New Guinea and Australia. Genetic […]
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Methane Plumes on Saturn’s Moon Likely a Good Sign of Alien Life An unknown methane-producing process is likely at work in the hidden ocean beneath the icy shell of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, suggests a new study published in Nature Astronomy by scientists at the University of Arizona and Paris Sciences & Lettres University. Giant water plumes erupting from Enceladus have […]
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