Humans around the world display myriad skin tones and eye colors that are fascinating and wonderful in their variety. Research continues on to see how people have acquired the features they have now and when to complete our puzzle of ancient human history. New anthropology research now suggests that light-colored skin and the tallness associated with European genetics are relatively recent tr
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Most of us have been in a similar situation: you’re out and about, dancing the night away with your best friends when you spot someone in the corner. That someone usually has a sleazy smile plastered all over his smug face, as he advances to the dancefloor, determined to impress you with the worst, I mean best, dance moves you’ve ever seen. It’s awkward, uncomfortable, and sometimes there is
The massive 26 ft (8 meters) statue was found in the groundwater of a Cairo slum by archaeologists from Egypt and Germany. It is likely to represent revered Pharaoh Ramses II, who controlled Egypt more than three thousand years ago, researchers say. The find was made near the remnants of the temple of Ramses II, in the old city of Héliopolis in the eastern part of modern Cairo, one of the most
1. 12 Velkommen til Scandinavian News. I dette innlegget skal vi se et virkelig vakkert hus renovert av dette paret. Prosessen er ganske inspirerende. De var ikke helt sikre på at det var så lurt det de hadde gjort, Lisa Petersson (27) og Gusten Lantz (28) da de kjøpte det falleferdige huset i Faggemåla i Sverige. Lisa hadde knapt tatt i en malerkost før. Men tre år senere er huset f
Sometimes animals become orphaned, and rely on the kindness of humans for survival. Thankfully, there are many people who devote their lives to taking care of these animals, and can become like a parent to them. The trust between these animals and their caretakers was exemplified in one viral photo, which showed two orphaned gorillas posing for a “selfie” with one of their rescuers. Sad
We can't understand nature without understanding its range. That's apparent in exoplanet science and in our theories of planetary formation. Nature's outliers and oddballs put pressure on our models and motivate scientists to dig deeper. Gliese 367 b (or Tahay) is certainly an oddball. It's an Ultrashort Period (USP) planet that orbits its star in only 7.7 hours. There are almost 200 o
Earlier this month, officials from Cedar Breaks National Monument in Utah shared a post highlighting the unique behavior of one of the region's most adorable and little-known species — the American pika. These tiny animals, a diminutive species related to rabbits, spend their days in rocky outcrops at higher altitudes, where they forage for their favorite food: wildflowers. But pikas don
40 years ago, the oil tanker Amoco Cadiz ran aground on Portsall Rocks, 5 km (3.1 mi) from the coast of Brittany, France, on 16 March 1978, and ultimately split in three and sank, all together resulting in the largest oil spill of its kind in history to that date. photo : Ouest France From JerseyEvening FOUR decades after a devastating oil spill off the Brittany coast threatened to
Soumyadeep Mukherjee from India, tells PetaPixel that on July 19 he was planning to capture a solar transit of the International Space Station (ISS) but things went awry. “I had set up by 17:00 on my terrace and was all ready. However, clouds rolled in and I couldn’t capture the ISS,” he explains. “I was casually roaming on the terrace when I saw sun dogs (another optical phenomeno

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