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Friday, Apr 25th, 2025 - In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists in Brazil have discovered the world's oldest known ant fossil of a 113-million-year-old specimen of a fearsome predator known as a "hell ant." Unearthed from limestone in northeastern Brazil, this fossil dramatically reshapes our understanding of ant evolution, pushing back their known history by over 13 million years. Published in Current Biology, the study reveals that ...

Thursday, Apr 24th, 2025 - Discovery could provide valuable clues as to how the climate crisis might affect Antarctica, says study Giant, flat-topped icebergs the size of the city of Cambridge drifted off the coast of Britain during the last ice age, according to a study that has uncovered evidence of their existence for the first time. A series of distinctive, comb-like grooves found preserved in sediment near Aberdeen in Scotland were left ...

Thursday, Apr 24th, 2025 - April 24 (UPI) -- China launched a crew of three astronauts for orbit Thursday to begin a six-month-long mission aboard the Tiangong space station. The Shenzhou-20 spacecraft blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, Gansu province at 5:17 a.m. EDT with three crew members aboard, led by commander Chen Dong on what is his third mission to space. The mission is the first in space for other crew ...