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The site sits within sediments that record major environmental upheaval in East Africa during the late Pliocene. Around 3.44 ...

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A Keio University team measured the cosmic microwave background temperature from 7 billion years ago at 5.13 K using ALMA, ...

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Traces of plague bacteria were found in a medieval skeleton from St Giles' Cathedral after new scientific analysis.