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Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson of Louisiana published a new study proving the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, a feat mathematicians long thought could not be done
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The remains were discovered during excavations in 1938. Now, researchers have learned new information about his identity by analyzing DNA from his tooth
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By analyzing an old lidar survey, researchers found evidence of more than 6,500 ancient structures in a previously unexplored area of Campeche
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After a summer that tied for the country's hottest, meteorologists say an unusually warm autumn is delaying snowfall
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The baby boy’s recovered genome suggests he’s related to a famous Ice Age population
