When Max Plank embarked upon the study of physics in the early 20 th century, his first lesson was that that there was nothing new to be unearthed in physics; Newton had already discovered the
farthest galaxies: The most distant cluster of galaxies yet has been revealed by astronomers to lie 9 billion light-years away. That beats the 8.5 billion light-years' distance of the previous
An important find at Gona in Ethiopia's Afar region, about 500 kilometres from Addis Ababa, is likely to fill a major gap in the story of human evolution. Fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus, one of the
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