Read more about the article Scientists Revive Ice Age Roundworm
Image shows the Panagrolaimus kolymaensis nematode, undated photo. It was discovered by researchers from the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science RAS in Russia in the Siberian Permafrost. (Alexei V. Tchesunov and Anastasia Shatilovich, Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science RAS/Newsflash)

Scientists Revive Ice Age Roundworm

Scientists in Germany have reanimated a roundworm from the Siberian permafrost that had laid dormant for nearly 50,000 years. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, Saxony State, thawed…

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Read more about the article New Study Suggests That Chimps Can Form Sound Sequences To Communicate New Meaning And Signal Threats
Image shows a wild chimpanzee in Uganda, undated photo. Swiss researchers from the city of Zurich showed that chimpanzees combine calls to communicate new meaning. (Adrian Soldati/Newsflash)

New Study Suggests That Chimps Can Form Sound Sequences To Communicate New Meaning And Signal Threats

A new study has suggested that people's closest-living relatives, chimps, can combine calls to communicate new meaning from the sequences in a similar way to when humans make sentences. Scientists…

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Read more about the article Large Geomagnetic Storm Hits Earth As Sun Spews Plasma Wave At 2 Million MPH
Picture shows the sun, undated. A coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from the sun on Friday, April 21, 2023. (NOAA; NASA GSFC; CIRA/Newsflash)

Large Geomagnetic Storm Hits Earth As Sun Spews Plasma Wave At 2 Million MPH

A large geomagnetic storm hit Earth after a solar flare spewed a large plasma wave at over 2 million mph. The incident took place on 21st April and reportedly triggered…

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Read more about the article Stone Age CSI As DNA On Elk Tooth Pendant Reveals Woman Who Wore It
Image shows a pierced deer tooth discovered from Denisova Cave in southern Siberia that yielded ancient human DNA, undated photo. German scientists recovered an ancient woman's DNA from a 20,000-year-old pendant. (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology/Newsflash)

Stone Age CSI As DNA On Elk Tooth Pendant Reveals Woman Who Wore It

A preserved Stone Age deer tooth pendant has revealed the identity of the woman who wore it after scientists extracted her DNA from the surface. The tooth - with a…

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Read more about the article Italian Restaurant Hires Robot Waiters To Replace Unreliable Humans
Image shows an illustrative photo of a food runner robot, undated photo. Restaurant owner Luca Marton hired robots for table service in the city of Treviso, Italy. (Newsflash)

Italian Restaurant Hires Robot Waiters To Replace Unreliable Humans

An Italian restaurant owner has told how he is turning to robot waiters because he cannot find enough humans willing to do the job. Luca Marton - who owns an…

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Read more about the article Metal Came From German Mines, Study Shows
Image shows some of the 313 manillas excavated by the Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi from a Flemish trader lost in 1524 off Getaria in Basque Country, northern Spain, undated photo. The ship was chartered by Portuguese merchants from Lisbon. (Ana Maria Benito-Dominguez, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)/Newsflash)

Metal Came From German Mines, Study Shows

Looted bronze treasures returned to Nigeria by Berlin were made from metal tokens minted from brass mined in Germany, scientists have discovered. Thousands of the distinctive bronzes disappeared during colonial…

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Read more about the article Robot Dogs To Soon Explore The Surface Of Mars, Researchers Claim
Image shows the VaMEx-3 project, which is funded by the German Space Agency at DLR with funds from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK), undated photo. It enables cooperation between different robot systems that are intended to land on Mars one day. (TZI, University of Bremen/Newsflash)

Robot Dogs To Soon Explore The Surface Of Mars, Researchers Claim

A swarm of robotic dogs, wheeled vehicles and flying drones are planned to be the next to start exploring Mars after the success of the NASA Mars Rover project. There…

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Read more about the article Threatened Sea Anemones Now Living In UK Waters As Well Can Learn Without Possessing A Brain
Picture shows the starlet sea anemone, undated. These sea creatures can learn without a brain according to a new study by Simon Sprecher, a neurobiologist at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. (Newsflash)

Threatened Sea Anemones Now Living In UK Waters As Well Can Learn Without Possessing A Brain

Researchers claim to have found that it is not necessary to have a brain in order to learn something. The remarkable discovery was made by Prof. Simon Sprecher from the…

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Read more about the article Ancient Stone Age Human Tools Could Have Been Made By Monkeys, Says Study
Image shows an example of a long-tailed macaque using a stone tool to access food, undated photo. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in the city of Leipzig, Germany, claimed that some accidentally produced stone fragments made by macaques resemble some of the earliest hominin stone artifacts. ( Lydia V. Luncz/Newsflash)

Ancient Stone Age Human Tools Could Have Been Made By Monkeys, Says Study

New research into ancient tools has revealed that cutting stones once believed to be made by early humans could actually have been the work of monkeys. Scientists from the Max…

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