A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet ...

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The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy sparked a revolution in scientists’ understanding of the origins of ...

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This Black physicist’s work on the Manhattan Project inspired a County in Florida two generations after her death ...

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Despite investigative genetic genealogy revolutionizing cold case investigations, it has been underused to free the wrongly ...