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An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

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EPFL's robotic appendage features fingers that bend both ways and is designed to retrieve objects from spaces too hazardous ...

The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art. Scientists have identified ...

Evidence of ancient occupation around Via Pietralata was found in the 1990s, and excavations of the area of the shrine began ...

A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new ...

ESA's Proba-3 mission, made up of twin spacecraft capable of aligning to create artificial eclipses, has captured "rare" ...