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What Is Nowruz and Why 300 Million People Celebrate It Culture

What Is Nowruz and Why 300 Million People Celebrate It

Nowruz, the Persian New Year, is a 3,000-year-old festival rooted in Zoroastrian tradition that marks the spring equinox. Celebrated across Iran, Cent...

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Younger Dryas: Volcanoes, Not a Comet, to Blame, Study Finds Science

Younger Dryas: Volcanoes, Not a Comet, to Blame, Study Finds

A study published in PLOS One demonstrates that a 12,800-year-old platinum spike in Greenland ice cores originated from Icelandic volcanic eruptions,...

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What Is the Younger Dryas and Why It Changed History Science

What Is the Younger Dryas and Why It Changed History

The Younger Dryas was a sudden 1,200-year cold snap 12,900 years ago that killed megafauna, ended the Clovis culture, and may have pushed humans towar...

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How Ice Cores Work—and What They Reveal Science

How Ice Cores Work—and What They Reveal

Scientists drill deep into polar ice sheets to extract frozen cylinders that preserve hundreds of thousands of years of climate history, from ancient...

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How Dinosaurs Hatched Eggs—With Help From the Sun Science

How Dinosaurs Hatched Eggs—With Help From the Sun

Long before modern birds perfected the art of brooding, oviraptor dinosaurs used a remarkable combination of body heat and solar warmth to incubate th...

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How Ancient Egyptian Mummification Worked Science

How Ancient Egyptian Mummification Worked

Ancient Egyptians developed one of history's most sophisticated preservation techniques over thousands of years. Here is how the 70-day mummification...

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What Is Homo habilis and How Did It Shape Human Evolution Science

What Is Homo habilis and How Did It Shape Human Evolution

Homo habilis—'handy man'—is one of the oldest known members of the human genus, living roughly 2.4 to 1.65 million years ago. Combining ape-like body...

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What Are Alvarezsaurs and Why They Puzzle Scientists Science

What Are Alvarezsaurs and Why They Puzzle Scientists

Alvarezsaurs were a bizarre group of tiny, bird-like dinosaurs with stubby arms and a single giant claw. A near-complete fossil from Patagonia is fina...

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What Is Ancient DNA and How Scientists Use It Science

What Is Ancient DNA and How Scientists Use It

Ancient DNA extracted from bones, teeth, and even permafrost sediments is rewriting human prehistory, revealing lost species, and opening unexpected d...

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How Archaeologists Decode Ancient Mass Graves Science

How Archaeologists Decode Ancient Mass Graves

When archaeologists uncover a prehistoric mass grave, a battery of modern forensic techniques—from isotopic analysis to ancient DNA—can reconstruct wh...

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What Did Paleolithic Humans Actually Eat? Health

What Did Paleolithic Humans Actually Eat?

The modern paleo diet promises to replicate what our Stone Age ancestors ate — but archaeology tells a far more complex story. Early humans were flexi...

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How Bone Rings Reveal Dinosaur Age and Growth Science

How Bone Rings Reveal Dinosaur Age and Growth

Just like tree rings record years of growth, microscopic lines inside dinosaur bones hold the key to understanding how long these giants lived and how...

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