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Found at the Sima del Elefante site in the Atapuerca Mountains, the fossils make up a partial skull comprised of the left side of the face of an adult hominin. The mineralized bones are the ...

Metallic nodules found deep in the sea seem to be producing significant amounts of oxygen by some unknown mechanism, researchers revealed last year. Now, we may have found out how it is happening ...

Mar. 13, 2025 — Industrial waste gases, long seen as a major contributor to climate change, could soon be captured and repurposed into everyday household products such as shampoo, detergent, and ...

Mar. 10, 2025 — It is widely believed that Earth's atmosphere has been rich in oxygen for about 2.5 billion years due to a relatively rapid increase in microorganisms capable of performing ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This image provided by the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution in March 2025, shows ...

However, due to the increased image noise at ULDCT, the linear branching pattern was missed and classified incorrectly by both readers as nodules with no tree-in-bud opacities. Denoised ULDCT allowed ...

At an outcrop north of Sydney, Australia, the research team unearths a rock covered in fossil leaves of the extinct ‘seed fern’ Dicroidium. Credit: C. Mays A research team from University College Cork ...