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Air sampler during a dust storm

The survival mechanisms of dust storm bacteria

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How do living bacteria survive inside dust particles carried by desert storms from the Sahara Desert and Egypt to Israel?
The water course of the ancient Akramat branch is bordered by a large number of pyramids from the Old Kingdom period to the Second Intermediate Period, which extends between the Third Dynasty and the Thirteenth Dynasty. Credit: Eman Ghoneim

Archaeology: The Egyptian pyramids were built along the forgotten branch of the Nile - Akramat

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These findings can explain why the pyramids are concentrated in what is now a narrow and hostile strip of desert
The Homo erectus tribe participates in the hunt. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Continuing the Tracing of Human Descent: The Impact of Climate on Out-of-Africa Migration

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Sediment studies in the Mediterranean reveal the existence of a green corridor in the Sahara desert that emerged at the exact time when our ancestors migrated from Africa about 2.1 million years ago
Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Is the desert green?

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Rare photographs of cheetahs that are in actual danger of extinction

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