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A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in collaboration with the Southern Marine Science and Engineering ...

Harvard Professor Avi Loeb maintains a cautious scientific approach to 3I/ATLAS, highlighting anomalies, the Loeb Scale ...