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Assignment: Mexico Maya — The producer’s point of view
On first learning that I would be joining an amazing, top notch production team to explore the Maya ruins in…
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Jurassic Park? Mammoth fragments from Siberia may be clonable
Scientists have discovered well-preserved frozen woolly mammoth fragments deep in Siberia that may contain living cells, edging a tad closer…
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Researchers have revealed what the face of a controversial ancient human nicknamed “the Hobbit” might have looked like. “She’s not…
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It’s a detective story with a century-old crime: The forgery of a supposed “missing link” in human evolution that went…
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Draft UN climate report shows 20 years of overestimated global warming, skeptics warn
A preliminary draft of a report by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was leaked to the public this…
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Monster goldfish found in Lake Tahoe
A new kind of lake monster has been found, in the depths of Lake Tahoe: gigantic goldfish. Researchers trawling the…
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Climate models wildly overestimated global warming, study finds
Can you rely on the weather forecast? Maybe not, at least when it comes to global warming predictions over short…
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It’s back: Winter looms on with return of polar vortex
Don’t pack up your winter gear just yet — the polar vortex is back and blasting arctic air across the…
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