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Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

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Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...

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Generating electricity on the Moon comes with inherent challenges. For one, solar energy can only be relied upon during the two-Earth-weeks-long lunar daytime, not the equally long night. A separate ...