Researchers announced the discovery of a fossil skull representing the earliest known member of the human evolutionary family, which lived in central Africa nearly 7 million years ago . Other scientists argued that the skull instead comes from an ancient ape . Brunet/NatureSensitive X-ray, infrared, and radio telescopes are providing an extraordinarily clear view of the dust-shrouded center of our galaxy .
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