Ancient Egyptian pigment can boost energy efficiency
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The pigment can boost energy efficiency by cooling rooftops and...
Ancient Easter Islanders collected freshwater from the ocean’s edge to survive
Ancient inhabitants of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) maintained a society of thousands by utilizing coastal groundwater discharge as their main source of "freshwater," according...
Humans delayed the onset of the Sahara desert by 500 years
Humans did not accelerate the decline of the ‘Green Sahara’ and may have managed to hold back the onset of the Sahara desert by...
Modern humans inherited viral defenses from Neanderthals
Neanderthals mysteriously disappeared about 40,000 years ago, but before vanishing they interbred with another human species that was just beginning its global spread.
As a...
Archaeologists find the earliest use of nutmeg as a food
As all things pumpkin spice arrives in grocery store aisles and on restaurant menus, a new study published in the journal Asian Perspectives describes the earliest-known...
Unprecedented study confirms massive scale of lowland Maya civilization
Tulane University researchers, documenting the discovery of dozens of ancient cities in northern Guatemala through the use of jungle-penetrating Lidar (light detection and ranging)...
Lasers reveal a vast, sophisticated Maya civilization under the Guatemalan jungle
Maya civilization flourished for 2500 years in southern Mexico, Guatemala and Belize, but its location in an inaccessible forest has complicated efforts to fully...
Our taste for beer may go back 13,000 years
Researchers have discovered evidence of the earliest brew masters to date, a finding that might stir an old debate: What came first, beer or...
558 million-year-old fat reveals earliest known animal
Scientists have discovered molecules of fat in an ancient fossil to reveal the earliest confirmed animal in the geological record that lived on Earth...
A single gene mutation may have helped humans become optimal long-distance runners
Two to three million years ago, the functional loss of a single gene triggered a series of significant changes in what would eventually become...
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In a recent study, researchers confirmed they discovered the main cause of dementia.
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Three common drugs linked to high dementia risk
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For older people, weight training is more important than cardio exercise
In a recent study from Wake Forest University, researchers found that weight training is more effective than cardio for older people.
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Three common drugs linked to high dementia risk
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Hubble discovers a unique type of object in the solar system
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