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America’s Largest Asteroid Impact Left a Trail of Destruction Across the Eastern United States

America’s largest impact crater wreaked havoc on the land and water. Scientists are just beginning to understand it.
‘The system is swamped.’ Canada can’t keep up with requests to study cannabis

The queue of applicants—there were 251 in line as of late July—and the attendant monthslong waiting times are frustrating scientists interested in the basic biology and therapeutic possibilities of cannabis.
Did Denisovans usher in the Stone Age in Mongolia?

Palaeolithic sites Tolbor-4 and Tolbor-16 may prove a missing link in the map of these ancient hominins.
The five: surprising talents of the Neanderthals

Embracing the arts as well as sports, they were masters of many different and complex disciplines.
Humans migrated to Mongolia much earlier than previously believed

Stone tools uncovered in Mongolia indicate that modern humans traveled across the Eurasian steppe about 45,000 years ago – about 10,000 years earlier than previously believed.