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LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detect most massive black hole merger to date
Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the LIGO ...
Study reveals how ancient elk rock art transformed from realistic to warped wolf-like beasts
Tepfer, published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, explores the transformation of elk rock art in the Mongolian Altai ...
Alpha males are rare among our fellow primates: scientists
New research on Monday contradicted the commonly held idea that males dominate females among primates, revealing far more ...
Peruvian citadel that is nearly 4,000 years old opens doors to tourists
To the music of conch shell trumpets, a 3,800-year-old citadel of the Caral civilization—one of the oldest in the ...
A Denver dino museum makes a find deep under own parking lot. Like 'a hole in one from the moon.'
A Denver museum known for its dinosaur displays has made a fossil bone discovery closer to home than anyone ever expected, ...
Horsemeat on the table: Medieval Hungarians defied religious norms for centuries
Archaeological analysis of horse remains from medieval Hungary indicates people continued to eat horses long after the country's conversion to Christianity, suggesting the decline in horsemeat ...
The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going up for auction in New York
A 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock. Estimated auction price: $2 million to $4 million. Why so expensive? It's the largest piece of ...
Returning to the office isn't the answer to Canada's productivity problem—and it will add pressure to urban housing
As companies face pressure to increase productivity, many are calling workers back to the office—even though there is limited ...
New clues from two million-year-old tooth enamel tell us more about an ancient relative of humans
For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...
The ACT wants dog owners to spend three hours a day with their pet—but quality, not quantity, matters most
Authorities in the ACT have released draft regulations for the welfare of dogs. One inclusion getting attention is a ...
Permanent retention of exceptional trees can improve ecosystem integrity in managed forests
Even-aged forest management is geared towards timber production with ecosystem health as a lesser consideration. This creates ...
Researchers demonstrate room-temperature lasing in photonic-crystal surface-emitting laser
In a first for the field, researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...