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Ancient humans hammered healthy front teeth out to be more 'attractive'
Many of us will have had a tooth pulled in the dentist chair, either under local or general anesthetic, and even with modern ...
12,000-Year-Old Spindles Hint at Humanity’s First Steps Toward the Wheel
Over 100 perforated pebbles from a site near the Sea of Galilee showcase an early instance of the tech that reshaped humanity ...
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12,000-year-old discovery forces experts to spin new story about wheel’s origins
While most of us learned that the wheel was invented around 3500 BCE for transportation, a groundbreaking discovery in Israel suggests we need to roll back our understanding of rotational technology ...
Erin Brockovich Signs On As E.P. Of ‘Black Snow,’ Film Documenting Russian Homemaker-Turned-Journalist Who Exposed Toxic Disaster
EXCLUSIVE: An award-winning documentary about the woman known as “the Russian Erin Brockovich” is getting support from… the ...
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These Mysterious 12,000-Year-Old Pebbles May Be Early Evidence of Wheel-Like Tools, Archaeologists Say
Researchers in Israel suggest the roughly donut-shaped artifacts could be spindle whorls, representing one of the oldest ...
20 Fat Cartoon Characters We Can’t Help But Love
Think about those adorable fat cartoon characters — you know, the ones. They’re lovable, have a larger-than-life personality ...
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12,000-Year-Old Stones May Be Earliest Evidence of This Transformative Technology
A new analysis of 12,000-year-old stones from Israel shows that they may be the earliest evidence of this society-changing ...
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Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Scientists have decided
This question has been asked for centuries, without really finding a definitive answer. From scientists' point of view, ...
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These 12,000-year-old Natufian artifacts may be very early evidence of wheel-like technology
These could be the earliest discovered spindle whorls, technology that was then seemingly lost for 4000 years.
'One-of-a-kind' skull fossil from Brazil reveals bird brain evolution
The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...
Smithsonian Magazine5d
How to Make a Mammal in Nine Evolutionary Steps
From the formation of inner ear bones to the rise of hair to cover our bodies, these developments made us distinct from other ...
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The Laws of Gravity Could Be Different on a Cosmic Scale, Potentially Explaining the Mystery of the Universe’s Accelerated Expansion
The mystery of the universe’s accelerated expansion remains one of the great enigmas of modern physics. Twenty-five years ago ...