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Trump Mobile’s origins lie with a Mexican middleweight boxer
Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. Last week, we spoke to executives from the company for the first time, and this week we’re back with more details on how it began. Trump Mobile may bear the US president’s name, but he didn’t come up with the idea, and neither did any Trump. In…
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Charting brain cell epigenomics to reveal origins of psychiatric disorders
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: In a revealing Genomic Press Interview published today in Genomic Psychiatry, Dr. Maria Margarita Behrens recounts an extraordinary scientific journey that wound through four countries and multiple disciplines before arriving at fundamental questions about how the…
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New Research Challenges Long-Held Assumptions About the Origins of Mesopotamian Civilization
New research uncovers how ancient tides shaped the rise of Sumer. A newly released study questions established beliefs about how urban civilization first emerged in ancient Mesopotamia, proposing that Sumer’s development resulted from the complex interaction of rivers, tides, and sediment deposits at the northern edge of the Persian Gulf. Published in PLOS ONE, the […] Source link
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Rethinking Australia’s Origins: When Did the First Humans Really Arrive?
A new study by a Utah anthropologist, based on genetic evidence, concludes that the colonizers of Sahul arrived later than the commonly held estimate of 65,000 years ago. Aboriginal Australian culture is recognized as the world’s longest continuous living tradition. Earlier studies estimated that the ancestors of today’s Indigenous Australians, known as the Sahul peoples, […] Source link
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Japan’s hot springs hold clues to the origins of life on Earth
Earth was not always the blue-green world we know today: the early Earth’s oxygen levels were about a million times lower than we now experience. There were no forests and no animals. For ancient organisms, oxygen was toxic. What did life look like at that time then? A recent study led by Fatima Li-Hau (graduate student at ELSI at the…
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I gave Origin’s Hybrid Mattress ⅘ stars in my recent review — and this 49% discount makes it even easier to recommend
We’re gearing up for peak sales season here in Australia, with Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days just over a week away and Black Friday 2025 not that far behind. But if you’re after a brand-new mattress, there’s no need to hold off until the sales start, as Origin’s just delivered a heck of a deal on its Hybrid Mattress. Right…
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9,200-Year-Old Cave Find Challenges Theories on Farming’s Origins
The 2019 excavations in Toda Cave. Credit: Robert Spengler A discovery in Uzbekistan shows that the roots of farming stretched far beyond the Fertile Crescent. The emergence of agriculture during the Neolithic marked a turning point in the development of human culture. While scholars agree that farming practices arose independently in several regions, including Africa, the Americas, and eastern Asia,…
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AI Unravels the Hidden Origins of Papua New Guineans
Papua New Guineans hold genetic secrets that challenge our understanding of human migration. New AI-driven research reveals their ancestry is tied to other Asians, but their striking features and unique evolutionary history hint at a more complex story still waiting to be fully uncovered. Credit: Shutterstock Genomic studies show Papua New Guineans are closely related to Asians, shaped by isolation,…
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Ancient fossil discovery in Ethiopia rewrites human origins
A team of international scientists has discovered new fossils at a field site in Africa that indicate Australopithecus, and the oldest specimens of Homo, coexisted at the same place in Africa at the same time — between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago. The paleoanthropologists discovered a new species of Australopithecus that has never been found anywhere. The Ledi-Geraru Research…
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Rewriting Physics Textbooks: Scientists Propose a Bold New Theory About the Universe’s Origins
Speculative elements may not be necessary to explain the cosmos. A team of researchers, led by Raúl Jiménez, an ICREA scientist at the University of Barcelona’s Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB), and working in partnership with the University of Padua (Italy), has introduced a groundbreaking new theory about how the Universe began. Published in Physical […] Source link
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