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Study suggests younger age for Chile's important Monte Verde archaeological site
March 19 (Reuters) - The Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile, discovered in the 1970s, revolutionized the thinking about when humans entered the Americas, with scientists calculating decades ago ...
Mar 19, 2026
NASA rover detects some of the oldest evidence of water flowing on Mars
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) - Using ground-penetrating radar, NASA's Perseverance rover has detected underground remains of an ancient river delta on Mars in some of the oldest evide...
Mar 18, 2026
Likely meteor rattled residents in Ohio, Pennsylvania
By Rich McKay March 17 (Reuters) - A kaboom, a fireball and white streaks in the skies over Pennsylvania and Ohio - seen as far as Virginia and Canada - were probably the signs of a meteorite landing ...
Mar 17, 2026
Molten alien planet with sulfur-choked atmosphere displays unique hellscape
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy that presents a unique hellscape - covered with a perpetua...
Mar 16, 2026
Dinosaur fossils in Brazil reveal new giant species
By Sergio Queiroz SAO PAULO, March 13 (Reuters) - Brazilian scientists have identified a new species of giant dinosaur with ties to a similar animal found in Spain, reinforcing knowledge that land rou...
Mar 13, 2026
Ancient vial in Turkey shows Romans used human excrement in medicine
By Ali Kucukgocmen BERGAMA, Turkey, March 13 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered traces of human excrement in a 1,900-year-old glass vial used to hold perfumes or elixirs, which they ...
Mar 13, 2026
Are bonobos truly the peaceful counterparts to chimps? New study says no
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - Bonobos for years have had the reputation of being the cool hippies of the simian world, with a "make love, not war" ethos, in contrast to their bellige...
Mar 13, 2026
Large shinbone found in New Mexico belongs to close kin of T. rex
WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) - A new analysis of a large shinbone unearthed in a remote spot in northwestern New Mexico in the 1970s shows it belongs to a close relative of Tyrannosaurus rex that pr...
Mar 12, 2026
FCC chair criticizes slow pace of Amazon satellite launches
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission dismissed criticism from Amazon.com of Elon Musk's SpaceX plan to launch a constellation of u...
Mar 11, 2026
Astrophysicists figure out what caused a super-bright supernova
WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - A supernova - the explosion marking the end of a massive star's life - is one of the brightest cosmic events, usually about a billion times more luminous than the sun....
Mar 11, 2026
