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224,000-Year-Old Homo Skull Fragment Adds New Mystery to Human Origins

A Homo heidelbergensis, a Neanderthal and a Cro-Magnon. Image credit: SINC / JosΓ© Antonio PeΓ±as.

A fossilized skull fragment of Homo sp. unearthed in central Spain offers paleoanthropologists a fresh window into the story of ancient humans who lived in Europe hundreds of thousands of years ago.

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Hidden Clues in Spirit Rover Data Suggest Mars Once Had Far More Water than Scientists Realized

NASA’s Spirit rover on Mars. Image credit: NASA.

A new look at more than two decades’ worth of archival data from NASA’s Spirit mission suggests that the Martian soil may hold iron-bearing minerals -- hematite and altered magnetite -- that were too faint for scientists to detect in real time during the mission.

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