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A Y-chromosome analysis of a 4,000-year-old Siberian warrior buried beneath more than 100 bone armor plates has traced his lineage to…
A warrior's DNA, preserved in Siberian permafrost for four millennia, reveals an unbroken genetic thread connecting ancient violence to modern populations across the Russian Far East.
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In April 2029, asteroid Apophis will pass just 32,000 kilometres above Earth—inside the orbit of geostationary satellites—and NASA’s…
Apophis will pass inside geostationary altitude in April 2029, giving OSIRIS-APEX a rare chance to inspect how Earth's gravity changed it.
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The programme to return Perseverance's rock samples from Mars was cancelled by the US Congress in January 2026
The nearest star system sits 4.2 light-years away—a distance today’s spacecraft would need tens of thousands of years to cross, yet a…
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Earth's core holds enough gold to cover every continent in a layer 50 centimetres deep, but until volcanic rocks from Hawaii were analysed…
A Y-chromosome analysis of a 4,000-year-old Siberian warrior buried beneath more than 100 bone armor plates has traced his lineage to…
The Moon does not cross the sky at a steady speed, and the Antikythera mechanism accounted for it with two slightly offset gears joined by…
In April 2029, asteroid Apophis will pass just 32,000 kilometres above Earth—inside the orbit of geostationary satellites—and NASA’s…
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