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DNA reveals that in prehistoric China, men remained in their community, while women joined new family lineages.

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Those concerned that 3I/ATLAS' arrival to our solar system meant that some sort of alien invasion was imminent can breathe a ...

Our eyes can frequently play tricks on us, but scientists have discovered that some artificial intelligence can fall for the ...

I/ATLAS is a newly detected interstellar object that entered the solar system from outside our stellar neighborhood, ...

Our planet has a memory. Deep within ice cores and ocean sediments lies evidence of a time when Earth looked fundamentally ...

Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...