By studying proteins preserved in teeth, researchers determined the sex of four Paranthropus robustus individuals that lived ...

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A remarkably preserved stegosaur skull is reshaping what scientists know about plated dinosaurs and their evolution across ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

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At the Morgan Library, 15th-century illuminated atlases embody the medieval appetite for wonder and myth. If the past is a ...