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Take a look at squirting cucumber explosive seed dispersal in real time and slowed down. Credit: Helen Gorges/CC BY-NC-ND

One doesn't normally associate ballistics with botany, but most of us don't study "squirting" cucumb...

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This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, n...

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Back in 1929, archaeologists unearthed several human skeletons (seven adults and three children) while excavating Skuhl Cave just south of Haifa, Israel....

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Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo erectus.

The digging sticks, curved root-slicers, and a handful of somewhat puzzling implements were all found at ...

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Dmitri Mendeleev famously saw the complete arrangement of the periodic table after falling asleep on his desk. He claimed in his dream he saw a table where all the elements fell into place, and he wrote it all down when he woke up. By having a eureka...

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