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Nothing is eternal. Less than ten thousand years ago, the Sahara was lush and tropical, with forests clustered around the largest freshwater lake on the planet

Humanity is on the verge of mass hunger - population growth is many times greater than the ability of industry to increase the production of meat products, which means that they need replacement

Its creator was one of the first to propose ideas that are popular in modern cities, but as a result, the settlement became a ghost town

No matter how long ago something happened, paleontologists will get to the bottom of it

Scientists at the University of Waterloo in Canada develop the world's first quantum heat engine

This image of phytoplankton swirls in the Strait of Hormuz was captured on October 6 using the OLI instrument on the Landsat 8 satellite

In a new study, scientists are addressing the problem of "dark energy", trying to solve it using the idea that the universe has boundaries

Atlantic Puffin is a species of seabird that lives on the coasts of the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. Scientists have never seen seabirds using tools to perform any action before

It is forbidden to walk a potentially dangerous dog without a muzzle and a leash, regardless of the place of walking

Scientists have identified two new species of mice in the Rostov region that have not previously been found in the region

Men who drink at least one cup of coffee a day are 15 percent less likely to be deaf, scientists from the Autonomous University of Madrid found

This is facilitated by the Gulf Stream, which carries water to the Arctic from the densely populated coasts of Europe and America

Danish scientists have found that a person who drinks coffee changes taste sensations - sweet food seems sweeter, and bitter - less bitter

Despite the fact that 2020 can be called the year of the struggle of scientists against the coronavirus, interesting and significant discoveries have been made in other fields of science

Erosion or cryoturbation? What caused the mysterious broken patterns on the soil surface in the Arctic zone of Siberia? And why do they disappear along the river banks? Scientists offer their versions in search of an answer to this question

For the first time, German scientists measured how long it takes for a photon to cross a hydrogen molecule. This is the shortest time span that has been successfully measured to date

Scientists have proposed a quantitative way to assess the degree to which a system is in a quantum state

During the Neolithic, new steppe peoples engaged in cattle breeding came to Europe from the Black Sea-Caspian steppe, which then mixed with the local population

In the United States, genetic scientists were able to find out the ethnic roots of most of the descendants of slaves in the country. After examining more than 50 thousand DNA tests, comparing them with archival documents, experts came to the conclusion that most of the slaves in the United States