All Stories by Eric Jaffe
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- Humans
Oldest Writing in the New World
Signs carved into a stone slab may represent the earliest known writing in the Americas.
- Fossils
A Rainforest Trapped in Amber
Tiny fossils show that rainforests existed in the western Amazon millions of years ago.
- Space
Dark collision
Observations of a tremendous galactic crash point to invisible stuff called dark matter.
- Space
Banana Split in Space
Astronomers have spotted an odd pair of banana-shaped features in a planet-forming cloud around a nearby star.
- Animals
Spotting the World’s Leggiest Animal
Researchers have rediscovered and studied a millipede with as many as 750 legs.
