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Using images snapped by NASA’s Terra satellite, researchers from Harvard and MIT have mapped more than 14,000 archaeological settlements across northeastern Syria.

An international team of researchers has sequenced the entire genome of the Tyrolean Iceman, uncovering a plethora of information about his ancestry, identity and his health – he’s even stepped into record books as the oldest documented case of lyme disease in humans.

Researchers have characterized the near complete fossils of two species of giant penguins.  The fossils are so complete, researchers were able to create a sketch of the bird that went extinct nearly 27 million years ago

Using a technique first theorized by Einstein to predict the presence of black holes, an international team of astronomers have found every star in the Milky Way Galaxy’s got at least one planet orbiting it.

After finding no companion star in the type 1a supernova remnant, SNR 0509-67.5, researchers say it was the collision of two white dwarfs that led to the stellar explosion, approximately 400 years ago.