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  • Finding Footprints Among Fossils

    GW Associate Professor of Anthropology Brian Richmond and colleagues unearthed a set of 1.5 million-year-old human ancestor footprints in Kenya...

  • GW Professor Discovers New Dinosaur

    The unique beaked, plant-eating dinosaur was discovered in China by Professor of Biology James Clark and Xu Xing of the Chinese Academy of Science.

  • GW Researchers Excel in Nanotechnology

    At the new GW Institute for Nanotechnology, scientists move, manipulate and research materials a million times smaller than a pinhead.

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