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Month: March 2017

We might have found some more archaic Denisovan people in China.

6 March 2017 grant 0

Science looks at skulls from Eastern China that appear to be the remains of the little-known Denisovan prehistoric people:

Since their discovery in 2010, the ex­tinct ice age humans called

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Science Art: Saturated Hydro-Carbon, by B.E. Pike, 1947

5 March 2017 grant 0

From The Wonderland of Science. A children’s book. From 1947.

This is what little kids were reading then.

Not that our culture is in decline or anything.

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Looking inside our galaxy’s biggest black hole

2 March 2017 grant 0

Science reports on the telescope that hopes to see the event horizon of the giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way:

Next month, astronomers will harness radio telescopes across the

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