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New Findings Reveal That Britain Began Industrializing in the 1600s – Over 100 Years Earlier Than History Books Claim
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Britain was already well on its way to an industrialized economy under the reign of the Stuarts in the 17th century – over 100 years before textbooks mark the start of the Industrial Revolution – according to the most detailed occupational history of a nation ever constructed. Built from more than 1...
The LOREX experiment utilizes lorandite ore to gauge historical solar neutrino flux, revealing insights about the Sun’s development and climatic effects through advanced decay rate measurements. The Sun, Earth’s life-sustaining powerhouse, generates immense energy through nuclear fusion while ...
Scientists have discovered 1.5-million-year-old standardized bone tools in Tanzania, pushing back the timeline of early hominin technology by over a million years. The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania shows that early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities and were ...
Medieval Plague Outbreaks Picked Up Speed Over Time – Quadrupled in Size Over 300 Years
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McMaster University researchers who analyzed thousands of documents covering a 300-year span of plague outbreaks in London, England, have estimated that the disease spread four times faster in the 17th century than it had in the 14th century. The findings, published today (October 19, 2020) in the P...
Defining Moment in Human Evolution: Turbulent Era Sparked Leap in Human Behavior, Technology 320,000 Years Ago
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New drill core shows a boom-bust landscape in the east African rift valley at a defining moment in human evolution, technology and culture. For hundreds of thousands of years, early humans in the East African Rift Valley could expect certain things from their environment. Freshwater lakes in the reg...
Blue Whales Return to South Georgia After Near Extinction From Whaling 50 Years Ago
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An international research team led by UK scientists has revealed the return of critically endangered Antarctic blue whales to the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, 50 years after whaling all but wiped them out. The new study follows recent research that humpback whales are also returning to the...
Ecology of Infectious Disease: Researchers Track and Analyze Smallpox Epidemics Over Nearly 300 Years
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Researchers from McMaster University have studied and analyzed thousands of weekly records documenting the deaths of smallpox victims in London, England over the span of nearly 300 years. The analysis provides new and rare insights into the ecology of infectious disease, establishing that the time b...