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783 results for: Mammoths

  1. Anthropology

    Drowned land holds clue to first Americans

    A map of a now-flooded region charts the path that Asians may have taken to first reach the Americas.

    By Richard Monastersky
  2. Astronomy

    Big Smash: Galaxy clusters in collision

    Astronomers have unveiled the most detailed image ever taken of the collision of two clusters of galaxies.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Astronomy

    Survey Probes Cosmos from Near to Far

    Early reports from the most mammoth sky surveys ever conducted are yielding a trove of findings, including the two most distant quasars known in the universe, new knowledge about the large-scale clumping of galaxies, and more evidence about the size and distribution of asteroids in our solar system.

    By Ron Cowen
  4. Astronomy

    Celestial Divide: Finding two families of galaxies

    By analyzing data from a mammoth sky survey, astromoners have found that galaxies divide into two distinct families, depending on their stellar mass.

    By Ron Cowen
  5. Astronomy

    Light’s Debut: Good Morning, Starshine!

    Astronomers have at last detected signs of one of the earliest and least-understood eras in the universe: the murky time just before the first stars and quasars flooded the cosmos with light.

    By Ron Cowen
  6. Archaeology

    Ancestors who came in from the cold

    Researchers found the remains of a 36,000-year-old human occupation in the Russian Arctic, which represents the earliest evidence of a human presence that far north.

    By Bruce Bower
  7. Paleontology

    Fertile Ground: Snippets of DNA persist in soil for millennia

    Minuscule samples of sediment from New Zealand and Siberia have yielded bits of DNA from dozens of animals and plants, including the oldest DNA sequences yet found that can be traced to a specific organism.

    By Sid Perkins
  8. Humans

    Water’s Edge Ancestors

    Human evolution’s tide may have turned on lake and sea shores.

    By Bruce Bower

  9. Storm Front

    Hurricane experts push to improve intensity forecasts.

    By Alexandra Witze

  10. Chasing a Cosmic Engine

    After 100 years, energetic space particles continue to pose a perplexing mystery.

    By Nadia Drake
  11. Climate

    Extremely Bad Weather

    Teasing out global warming's role in worsening hurricanes, droughts and other extreme events.

    By Janet Raloff
  12. Physics

    Higgs discovery helps make sense of matter

    Long-sought boson completes standard model of physics.

    By Alexandra Witze