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Anthropology: General
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The unexpected origins of a modern finance tool      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Surprisingly, the origins of financial discounting began with 17th-century English clergymen. ...

Offbeat: General Offbeat: Space Space: Astronomy Space: Exploration Space: General Space: The Solar System
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Study determines the original orientations of rocks drilled on Mars      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Geologists determined the original orientation of many of the Mars bedrock samples collected by the ...

Anthropology: General Archaeology: General
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Rare Samoan discovery offers clues to origins of inequality      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

The origins of hierarchical society in Samoa and wider Polynesia have likely been uncovered by a new ...

Chemistry: Biochemistry Chemistry: Organic Chemistry Engineering: Nanotechnology
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Cryo-microscopy reveals nano-sized copy machine implicated in origin of life      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

RNA is thought to have sparked the origin of life by self-copying. Researchers have now revealed the ...

Anthropology: Cultures Archaeology: General Offbeat: General Offbeat: Paleontology and Archeology
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Great Scott! Stonehenge's Altar Stone origins reveal advanced ancient Britain      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

New research has revealed Stonehenge's monumental six-ton Altar Stone, long believed to originate fr ...

Biology: Biochemistry Geoscience: Geography
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Unraveling the origin and global spread of the potato blight pathogen      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

A new study challenges the common theory that the devastating potato blight pathogen Phytophthora in...

Biology: Microbiology
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The surprising origin of a deadly hospital infection      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Surprising findings from a new study suggest that the burden of C. diff infection may be less a matt...

Paleontology: Fossils Paleontology: General
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Discovery of 500-million-year-old fossil reveals astonishing secrets of tunicate origins      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Researchers describe a 500 million-year-old tunicate fossil species. The study suggests that the mod...

Offbeat: General
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Origins of creativity in the brain      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

New results could ultimately help lead to interventions that spark creative thought or aid people wh...

Paleontology: Early Mammals and Birds
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Evolutionary origins of the pygmy right whale      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Researchers have finally settled a decades-long dispute about the evolutionary origins of the pygmy ...