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Tennis in space, anyone? Astronauts have a ball during historic match

8 years 2 months ago
NEW YORK — Last night (Aug. 21), astronauts made history by playing the first-ever tennis match in space aboard the International Space Station. The match was projected live onto an enormous globe in Queens, New York, where a crowd of space and tennis enthusiasts gathered to watch the historic event.

Neanderthals and Denisovans mated, new hybrid bone reveals

8 years 2 months ago
The closest known extinct relatives of modern humans were the thick-browed Neanderthals and the mysterious Denisovans. Now, a bone fragment from a Siberian cave, perhaps from a teenage girl, has revealed the first known hybrid of these groups, a new study concludes. The finding confirms interbreeding that had been only hinted at in earlier genetic studies.
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