A 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked central China on Monday, killing as many as 5,000 in Sichuan province’s Beichuan county and trapping students in at least eight schools, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. Read the full report on NewsHour.
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Neanderthal reconstruction
Photo: Stefan Scheer, Neanderthal Museum, Mettman, Germany
There were thousands of years that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens inhabited the same regions in Europe. How much...
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The Hawaiian chain of islands, made up of six main islands plus two smaller ones, stretches for more than 1,500 miles through the heart of...
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Located along the riverbanks of southern Kenya, the sycomore fig tree is the centerpiece of an extraordinary ecosystem, producing several tons of fruit a year...
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