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

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A fossil from the early Stone Age

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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

Ernst Mayr transformed 20th century biology

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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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the moon was a focus of much interest in the US and the erstwhile USSR. But that politico scientific Cold War is a thing of the past. And the near future, scientists and t v jayan believe, wi

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