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Asteroid bombardment may have delayed Earth's first continents
Repeated asteroid impacts during Earth's early history may have pumped so much heat into the planet's interior that stable continents couldn’t form for hundreds of millions of years.
Get a load of this: Humans and great apes share similar giggles
Compared with apes, human laughter has become faster and more complex.
Poland, Ukraine hold key Gdansk conference without Zelenskyy
A recent poll shows 59.7% of Poles now oppose Ukraine's accession to the EU.
Norman Rockwell people-watched in the West Wing lobby. Now those sketches are on public display
The sketches had been put up for sale by a grandson of the White House official who received them as a gift from Rockwell.
Sicily’s medieval mosaic: DNA reveals island’s deep diversity
Sicily is famous as a crossroads of civilizations in the Mediterranean. A DNA study of its medieval populations proves it.
Vatican begins 5-year restoration of Raphael Loggia, used by popes and presidents
Raphael conceived of the decoration between 1517-1519 as one of his last commissions for Pope Leo X.
Archaeologists find huge Viking textile production site in Denmark
Experts found a single residential home, which suggests work was overseen by a powerful individual with control over resources and production.
Fossil site of extinct human cousin may have been all female
Scientists analyzed proteins from the teeth of at least 20 Homo naledi individuals and found no male markers, suggesting a South African cave system could contain the first known sex-specific burial site by a non-human species.
Maine judge grants possession of abandoned 130-year-old shipwreck to the state
The federal judge also found the wreckage of a New England granite shipping schooner is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.
As Native American boarding schools project ends, survivors describe feeling honored and restored
The intent is to document and share with the public the systemic abuse endured by boarding school survivors under the government’s attempts at forced assimilation.
How Brexit broke British politics
Campaigners for Brexit promised that leaving the European Union would let the U.K. “take back control” of its laws, economy and borders.