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Citations S.L. Cox et al. Socio-cultural practices may have affected sex differences in stature in Early Neolithic Europe. Nature Human…

Sweet discovery for the wine industry — Science News, June 29, 1974 Pierce’s disease remains a problem for California grape…

India’s Ganges River shifted abruptly due to a distant yet massive earthquake around 2,500 years ago, new geologic evidence suggests.…

Do I Know You?Sadie DingfelderLittle, Brown Spark, $32 A friend and I recently stumbled into a conversation about inner monologues.…

Four thousand years ago, on an island off the coast of what is now Siberia, the world’s last woolly mammoth…

Paleontologists studying rocks from Morocco have unearthed the most exquisitely preserved trilobite fossils yet discovered. The new lifelike fossils update…

Ancient Egyptian scribes’ life works are written on their bones. Arthritis and other damage mark the scribes’ skeletons where the…

Supermassive black holes at the hearts of active galaxies may be churning out a lot of the universe’s high-energy neutrinos.…

Warming UpMadeleine OrrBloomsbury Sigma, $28 It’s easy to think of sports as an escape from reality, removed from the glaring…

Something strange is happening at Earth’s center. Decades of earthquake data show that Earth’s inner core has been rotating slower…

A sequence of letters belonging to an ancient alphabet has been discovered in a most unusual way — by someone…

Black holes can’t be formed from pure light. Quantum physics would curb their creation under any foreseeable conditions, a new…