Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

A team of zoologists, molecular engineers and pest control specialists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working with a ...

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The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs ...

A better understanding of how the human brain represents objects that exist in nature, such as rocks, plants, animals, and so ...

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BEIJING -- A team of Chinese scientists has developed a groundbreaking device capable of converting the friction between ...

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

The researchers used their robot for various applications, including to bring droplets together, in some cases starting a ...