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• Research Suggests Climate Change May Have Contributed To Extinction Of Neanderthals

  

  (Newsroom America) -- A researcher at the University of Colorado Denver has found that Neanderthals in Europe showed signs of nutritional stress during periods of extreme cold, suggesting climate change may have contributed to their demise around 40,000 years ago. Jamie Hodgkins, a zooarchaeologist and assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at CU Denver, analyzed the remains of prey animals and found that Neanderthals worked especially hard to extract every calorie from the meat a..

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• Metal-poor galaxy could help test the Big Bang theory

  

  Space Metal-poor galaxy could help test the Big Bang theory Anthony Wood May 13, 2016 A team of astronomers has discovered a faint blue dwarf galaxy nicknamed Leoncino or the "little lion," that could be used as a tool to test the Big Bang Theory. The little lion is the most metal-poor galaxy ever discovered, meaning that it could act as a time capsule, allowing scientists to glimpse the c..

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• Genes linked to educational attainment expressed in the brain during prenatal development - News

  

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• WATCH: Here are the limits of humanity's space exploration

  

  VIDEO When it comes to space exploration, how far can we actually go? Is there a true limit, even with the sci-fi tech of the future, to humanity’s reach beyond Earth?  As the Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell video above explains, humanity lives in a small area of the Milky Way - an average spiral galaxy that’s about 100,000 light-years across. Like many other spiral galaxies, it's full of stars, planets, gases, and dark energy, with a supermassive black hole in the centre. Though we might think of o..

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