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Scientists have discovered evidence of what may be the world’s oldest known human burial. The 300,000 year-old Homo naledi remains show signs of having been intentionally buried in a chamber marked with symbols. But other scientists aren’t so sure.

From an energetic Pacific island celebration to a colorful apartment block in Tokyo, the winners of this year’s National Geographic Traveller Photography Competition celebrate the best photographic talent in the United Kingdom.

​Famed American aviator Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1937, while attempting to fly around the world in a Lockheed Model 10E Electra. Now, a high-tech unmanned boat has been enlisted to help search for that plane, near an island where Earhart may have crash-landed.

A beautiful, almost dreamlike, shot of a tiny fishing village in Greenland has won the Grand Prize in this year's National Geographic Travel Photo Contest. Chinese photographer Weimin Chu spent nearly a week in the tiny, tranquil town before capturing the immediately iconic, award-winning shot.

​Many times, when new species are discovered, the characteristics that set them apart can only be appreciated by scientists. That isn't the case with the Ceratogyrus attonitifer tarantula, however – the thing has a long, soft horn protruding out of its back, and nobody knows why it's there.

SpaceX plans to send people to Mars in 2022, and NASA has manned missions planned for 2030. But how would humans live on the Red Planet? New Atlas went to the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, where National Geographic has created the world's first Mars show home, to try and find out.

NASA is dropping miniature robots down crevices inaccessible to humans as a way of extracting information about volcanoes on and off the Earth.

In an effort to demonstrate the potential of a new nano-scale manufacturing technology, as well to encourage young people’s interest in science and technology, IBM has unveiled the world’s smallest magazine cover at the USA Science and Engineering Festival.

James Cameron has just captured the record for deepest possible solo dive by entering the Challenger Deep alone

Famed film director James Cameron recently completed the deepest solo submarine dive ever, with plans to go even deeper later this year

Fifteen Google Science Fair quarter-finalists have been announced as the competition moves towards the Grand Final on July 11th 2011.

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