The gold burial mask of the ancient Egyptian king Tutankhamun on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. AMIR MAKAR/AFP Some ...

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Branches are colored according to the M. tuberculosis complex lineage: pink for lineage 1, blue for lineage 2, purple for lineage 3, and red for lineage 4. Discrete heat maps next to the phylogeny ...

But recent regulations in Java, which prohibit capturing and killing of pangolins and the export of scales, will turn the attention of the Chinese medicine men more forcibly towards the native ...

together with William Oughtred's “Trigonometria” of 1657. Beman inquires whether this symbol for geometric ratio has a still earlier date.

It seemed like the robot had it in the bag. If we were going to have a simple, universally recognizable symbol for artificial intelligence, the robot emoji was the obvious choice. Sure ...

The temples abandoned by Hindus, which recently came to light in Sambhal, are symbolic of how the demographic situation turned against them in independent India, under the veneer of official ...