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Famous birthdays for Jan. 11: Amanda Peet, Naomi Judd
Actor Amanda Peet turns 48 and singer Naomi Judd turns 74, among the famous birthdays for Jan. 11.
Study pinpoints the timing of earliest human migration
Sangiran, a World Heritage archeological site on the island of Java, is home to dozens of hominid fossils, comprising three different species, including evidence of the earliest hominid migration to...
Plant life expanding in the Everest region
Plant life is expanding in the area around Mount Everest, and across the Himalayan region, new research shows.
'Lizzie McGuire' creator exits Disney+ revival after two episodes
Terri Minsky, the creator of the original "Lizzie McGuire," has exited the show's Disney+ revival series as showrunner.
Scientists find oldest-known fossilized digestive tract at 550 million years old
A 550 million-year-old fossilized digestive tract found in the Nevada desert could be a key find in understanding the early history of animals on Earth.
Scientists find oldest-known fossilized digestive tract -- 550 million years
An analysis of tubular fossils provides evidence of a 550-million-year-old digestive tract -- one of the oldest known examples of fossilized internal anatomical structures -- and reveals what scientists believe...
Novel avian species: 10 new bird taxa in islands of Wallacea
A research team found five bird species and five subspecies new to science in three small island groups off Sulawesi, Indonesia. The islands are situated in Indonesia's Wallacea region, an...
Rotting feral pig carcasses teach scientists what happens when tons of animals die all at once
The unprecedented wildfire raging across Australia is not only destroying human lives, but has killed hundreds of millions of animals – perhaps billions before it is all over.
Dating of volcanic ash at Sangiran shows Homo erectus arrived later than thought
A team of researchers from Japan, Indonesia and Germany has found evidence that suggests Homo erectus arrived on the island of Java approximately 300,000 years later than thought. In their...
Anthropologist digitizes a changing culture from half a world away
In 2006, University of Virginia anthropologist Lise Dobrin received a document attached to an email from a man she knew in Papua New Guinea, where she had conducted fieldwork for...
Strength from perpetual grief: How Aboriginal people experience the bushfire crisis
How do you support people forever attached to a landscape after an inferno tears through their homelands: decimating native food sources, burning through ancient scarred trees and destroying ancestral and...
Watch: 'Apex Legends': New modes are announced in Grand Soiree Aracde trailer
A number of new gameplay modes are coming to battle royale title "Apex Legends" as part of the upcoming Grand Soiree Arcade event.
Plants found to speak roundworm's language
Nematodes are tiny, ubiquitous roundworms that infect plant roots, causing more than $100 billion in crop damage worldwide each year. New research has found that plants manipulate the worms' pheromones...
Faroe Islands
Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Faroe Islands, located halfway between Iceland and Norway in the North Atlantic Ocean. The Faroe Islands are an archipelago made up of 18 jagged...
River people: Life along Asia's key waterways
From the flood-ravaged banks of the Brahmaputra to the disappearing wetlands of the Mekong, Asia's main waterways—and the people that live along them—are fighting for survival.
'Everything is lost': Life on the edge of the Brahmaputra
Once a vast river island in the heart of the Brahmaputra, now Majuli's days are numbered: Experts warn it may disappear entirely by 2040 as ever more violent flooding swells...
Arielle Kebbel plays cop with baggage in NBC’s ‘Bone Collector’
Arielle Kebbel said the cop she plays on NBC's new crime drama, "Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector," is troubled but deeply committed to helping others.
Famous birthdays for Jan. 10: Pat Benatar, Rod Stewart
Singer Pat Benatar turns 67 and singer Rod Stewart turns 75, among the famous birthdays for Jan. 10.
On This Day, Jan. 10: League of Nations founded
On Jan. 10, 1920, the League of Nations came into being as the Treaty of Versailles went into effect.
Plant life expanding in the Everest region
Plant life is expanding in the area around Mount Everest, and across the Himalayan region, new research shows.
Watch: Squirrels repeatedly target man's Jeep, cause $700 worth of damage
A Colorado man said squirrels have squeezed into the inner workings of his vehicle three times and caused about $700 worth of damage.
Age control of the first appearance datum for Javanese Homo erectus in the Sangiran area
The chronology of the World Heritage Site of Sangiran in Indonesia is crucial for the understanding of human dispersals and settlement in Asia in the Early Pleistocene (before 780,000 years...
A ‘bonanza’ of new bird species was found on remote Indonesian islands
It’s a veritable bevy of birds: Ten songbirds hailing from a cluster of small Indonesian islands near Sulawesi have officially joined the scientific record. Typically, only five or six new bird species are...
Homo erectus arrived in Indonesia 300,000 years later than previously thought
Homo erectus reached the Indonesian island of Java some 300,000 years later than many researchers have assumed, a new study finds. Analyzing volcanic material from sediment that had yielded H. erectus fossils at...
Alicia Keys, John Legend and more to honor Prince at Grammy tribute concert
Alicia Keys, John Legend, Foo Fighters and more are set to honor the late Prince during a Grammy tribute concert.
The Vikings erected a runestone out of fear of climate catastrophe
Several passages on the Rök stone -- the world's most famous Viking Age runic monument -- suggest that the inscription is about battles and for over a hundred years, researchers...
British PM Boris Johnson, Pope Francis urge calming of Iran-U.S. tensions
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Pope Francis each called for a de-escalation of the heightened tensions between Iran and the United States on Thursday.
Scottish rocks prove 'boring billion' wasn't so boring after all
Scottish rocks have provided evidence of a previously unknown ice age that has shed new light on the evolution of the planet.