We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

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The ESA says Gaia has been mapping the positions, distances, movements, brightness changes, composition of stars in the Milky ...

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Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in the Ségognole 3 cave near Paris. They found engravings on the floor that ...

Pytheas of Massalia, an ancient Greek geographer, was the first Mediterranean person to reach Great Britain and the Arctic ...

High-resolution analysis of ancient genomes reveals key Scandinavian ancestry movements in early medieval Europe, ...

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A Cranfield University, UK, academic has used drone mapping to investigate a 3,000-year-old 'mega fortress' in the Caucasus ...

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