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World’s oldest ground-edge implement discovered in northern Australia
The oldest ground-edge stone tool in the world has been discovered in northern Australia by a Monash University researcher and a team of international experts.
Evidence for stone tool-use among our earliest hominid ancestors dates to 3.4 mill…
Current theory on cause of kidney stones refuted
New research into the origin of kidney stone formation published in the March 1 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation may well change the direction of the most basic level of research in that area. The study will dispel the current beliefs of where stone formation begins, said the article’s lead author, adding that the research confirmed instead a hypothesis published in 1940 by Alexander Randall, M.D.