Just How Big was the Largest Dinosaur? Bigger than you think.
The largest dinosaur that ever lived has been revised many times. Some paleontologists thought it was the Brontosaurus, way back in the
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Nikola Tesla: The extraordinary life of a modern Prometheus
Richard Gunderman, Indiana University Match the following figures – Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Guglielmo Marconi, Alfred Nobel and Nikola Tesla
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Super-black feathers can absorb virtually every photon of light that hits them
Dakota McCoy, Harvard University What do birds and aerospace engineers have in common? Both have invented incredibly dark, “super-black” surfaces
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Fossil jawbone from Israel is the oldest modern human found outside Africa
Rolf Quam, Binghamton University, State University of New York New fossil finds over the past few years have been forcing
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Promising male birth control pill has its origin in an arrow poison
Gunda Georg, University of Minnesota; Jon Hawkinson, University of Minnesota, and Shameem Syeda, University of Minnesota After decades of research,
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Prehistoric wine discovered in inaccessible caves forces a rethink of ancient Sicilian culture
Davide Tanasi, University of South Florida Monte Kronio rises 1,300 feet above the geothermally active landscape of southwestern Sicily. Hidden
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Supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy may have a friend
Smadar Naoz, University of California, Los Angeles Do supermassive black holes have friends? The nature of galaxy formation suggests that
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Why a 14th-century mystic appeals to today’s ‘spiritual but not religious’ Americans
Joel Harrington, Vanderbilt University The percentage of Americans who do not identify with any religious tradition continues to rise annually.
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Elite companions, flute girls and child slaves: sex work in ancient Athens
Marguerite Johnson, University of Newcastle In our sexual histories series, authors explore changing sexual mores from antiquity to today. When
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Fall of Troy: the legend and the facts
Mariacarmela Montesanto, University of Liverpool The legendary ancient city of Troy is very much in the limelight this year: a
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