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The poorly understood ‘ matalafi ’ — the homogenate of Psychotria insularum leaves (fresh leaf juice) — is widely used in Samoan traditional medicine to treat inflammation associated with fever, body ...
Letty Ingrey and her colleagues from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London, the University of Wales and Wessex Archaeology unearthed an assemblage of 800 Acheulean stone tools. The ...
Around 12,800 years ago, Earth collided with fragments of a disintegrating comet, triggering Younger Dryas climate change; this event created environmental conditions at Abu Hureyra, Syria, that ...
LHS 1140 is a cool low-mass star approximately 39 light-years away in the constellation of Cetus. Also known as Gliese 3053, GJ 3053 and 2MASS J00445930-1516166, the star is about one-fifth the size ...
The word Viking comes from the Scandinavian term ‘ vikingr ’ meaning ‘ pirate.’ The Viking Age generally refers to the period from 800 CE, a few years after the earliest recorded raid, until the 1050s ...