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'Liquid gypsum' burial from Roman Britain scanned in 3D,...
About 1,700 years ago, liquid gypsum was poured over the remains of an elite family in Roman Britain.
How many oceans are there?
One, four or five? Not all experts agree on the number of oceans on our planet.
Dying stars build humongous 'cocoons' that shake the fabric...
New simulations show that dying stars release enormous "cocoons" of gas that may rattle with space-time ripples called gravitational...
King Tut's likeness revealed in vivid new facial approximation...
Researchers created a facial approximation that reconstructs what the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun may have looked like.
Primates have been masturbating for at least 40 million...
Researchers reconstructed the evolutionary origins of primate masturbation and found it was an ancestral trait that goes back to the...
World's largest captive croc turns 120, giving scientists...
Researchers captured Cassius in 1984 because the "big old gnarly crocodile" was causing trouble on a cattle farm, and ferried him...
Primordial steroids solve long-standing mystery about how...
Compounds from 1.6 billion years ago reveal a microbial transition that set the stage for much of today's life on Earth.
James Webb Space Telescope discovers oldest organic molecules...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered evidence of complex organic molecules in a galaxy 12.3 billion light-years...