Despite the long evolutionary history of our species, humans have only been reading and writing for a few thousand years. New research shows that we may have ‘recycled’ a key region of the brain to help us understand the written word. In tests on rhesus macaque monkeys, scientists have shown …
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How did Earth’s tectonic plates form? You might think that this would be an easy question to answer, considering that we are now trying to pin down the details of when it happened, and if there is tectonic activity on the Moon. But our knowledge of how this planetary mechanism …
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Scientists are still not completely sure how the Moon formed, although many hypotheses have been discussed. Now, new findings about metal deposits in lunar craters could mean that we need to rethink those hypotheses again. In summary, the findings suggest that there are more metals like iron and titanium in …
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