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The earliest morphological traces of life on Earth are often highly controversial, both because non-biological processes can produce relatively similar structures and because such fossils…

Astronomers led by the University of Warwick have identified the oldest star in our galaxy that is accreting debris from orbiting planetesimals, making it one of the oldest rocky and icy…

The first genetic data from Palaeolithic human individuals in the UK -- the oldest human DNA obtained from the British Isles so far -- indicates the presence of two distinct groups that…

Some wines and beautiful people get better with age, while others fade over the years. The same is true of sports venues. Some stadiums and arenas…

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers from the CAnadian NIRISS Unbiased Cluster Survey (CANUCS) team have identified the most distant globular clusters ever discovered.…

The UN's telecoms agency, which chose Doreen Bogdan-Martin as its next chief plays a key role in the rules governing radio frequencies, satellites and 5G. The International…

The research used both data from Webb's NIRCam instrument and archival data from the Hubble Space Telescope. Combining these two sources lets the researchers see the clusters…

An international team of paleontologists led by Virginia Tech has discovered and named a new, early dinosaur. The skeleton -- incredibly, mostly intact -- was first found by a graduate…

The acquisition of bipedalism is considered to be a decisive step in human evolution. Nevertheless, there is no consensus on its modalities and age, notably due to the lack of fossil…

A new analysis of a beaver anklebone fossil found in Montana suggests the evolution of semi-aquatic beavers may have occurred at least 7 million years earlier than previously thought, and…