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Astrophysics: Cosmology safe as universe has no sense of direction
The universe is expanding uniformly according to research led by UCL which reports that space isn't stretching in a preferred direction or spinning.Illustration of the possible patterns an anisotropic universe would leave in the cosmic microwave background, including (clockwise from bottom left) the contribution from quantum fluct…
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Philippines: What Hunter-Gatherers can tell us about fundamental human social networks
Long before the advent of social media, human social networks were built around sharing a much more essential commodity: food. Now, researchers reporting on the food sharing networks of two contemporary groups of hunter-gatherers in the >Cell Press journal Current Biology provide new insight into fundamental nature of human social…
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Palaeontology: Africa’s earliest known coelacanth found in Eastern Cape
Various specimens of Africa’s earliest coelacanth have been found in a 360 million year-old fossil estuary near Grahamstown, in South Africa’s Eastern Cape.Serenichthys coelacanth holotype [Credit: Wits University]More than 30 complete specimens of the new fossil species, Serenichthys kowiensis, were collected from the famous Late…
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Ecosystems: Immense species richness of bacterial-eating microorganisms discovered in soil
Typically ignored, the millions of microorganisms that we tread upon daily play a major role in the decomposition of soil matter -- one that is of far greater significance than that of the whales and pandas that tend to steal our attention. A group of researchers has just shown that there is an enormous diversity among a group of …
The Great London [01/21/17]
- Riace Bronzes back home in Reggio Calabria Museum
- Artefacts from ‘Andalucía's Pompeii' go on display
- Fragment of manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci unearthed in French town library
- The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus: an ancient Egyptian mind boggler
- 'Underground Revolution' features 8,500 years of history in Istanbul
