New research suggests that monkeys, like humans, may be engaged in the process of self-adaptation, altering their own evolutionary and physiological pathways through the way they interact with each other. It has long been recognized that animal rearing promotes certain physical features that are not found in their wild counterparts. …
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Medical researchers have made an astonishing anatomical discovery, discovering what a mysterious mass of salivary glands hidden inside the human brain looks like – something that has been missing from scientists for centuries. This “unknown entity” was identified by accident from doctors in the Netherlands who were examining patients with …
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Scientists have so far measured the short-term unit: the time it takes lighter particles to cross a hydrogen atom. That time, for the record, is 247 zeptoseconds. One zeptosecond is a trillion, or decimal point, in the billions of another, followed by 20 zeros and 1. Previously, researchers had dived …
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An international team of scientists has helped unravel the long-standing mystery of how deposits are rarer than Earth’s – and sometimes disappear without being discovered. Rare Earth Elements (REE) is a set of 17 precious chemical elements that are vitally important in the manufacture of technological devices, from smartphones to …
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As the world warms, melting ice sheets around the world reveal everything from trapped methane gas to the remains of Viking. A new discovery has been made in the now-returning Snow Packs: the remains of an 800-year-old penguin. After discovering that the Antarctic coast was initially found to be fresh …
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