Roman-era silver 'toilet spoon' discovered in Wales

The silver spoon was used to scoop out cosmetics and medications.

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45,000-year-old bones unearthed in cave are oldest modern-human remains in Central Europe

The finding suggests that 'successive pulses of small groups' of humans replaced Neanderthals in Europe starting around 45,000 years ago.

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How do fevers kill germs?

You may have heard that fevers help fight infections. But how, exactly, do they do it?

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Are they exomoons or not? Scientists debate existence of 1st moons seen beyond our solar system

Team "pro-exomoon" is back to defend the discovery of the first and only exomoons potentially seen by humanity.

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'Mind-blowing' James Webb telescope images reveal 19 spiral galaxies in the greatest detail ever seen

New James Webb telescope images reveal 19 Milky Way-like spiral galaxies in more intricate detail than has ever been seen before.

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Have we found sonar evidence of Amelia Earhart's lost plane? Not so fast, experts say.

Sonar images could reveal the location of Earhart's fatal crash, but some experts say the object can't be her aircraft.

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Early medieval sword fished out of Polish river is in 'near perfect' condition

A sword dredged from a Polish river could be of Viking origin.

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A perfect storm of factors is causing major East Coast cities to sink. What are they, and can we do anything about it?

Cities along the Atlantic coast — including New York, Boston, and Miami — are sinking into the ground.

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Undetected brain infections may explain some SIDS cases

A new study points to brain infection and inflammation as a possible explanation for some cases of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS.

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Pinpoint landing: NASA orbiter spies Japan's revived SLIM moon lander on lunar surface

NASA's images show SLIM's landing site both before and after the probe's touchdown.

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Mysterious virus-like 'Obelisks' found in the human gut and mouth

Scientists have uncovered a unique group of virus-like entities in the human gut and mouth.

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'This might be the seeds of life': Organic matter found on asteroid Ryugu could explain where life on Earth came from

Organic matter found in samples of asteroid Ryugu suggests that ancient comets may be responsible for bringing the 'seeds of life' to Earth.

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How could this new type of room-temperature qubit usher in the next phase of quantum computing?

The qubit attained quantum coherence for 100 nanoseconds, which an expert described as an "important milestone" in quantum computing research.

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What was the typical life span of a dinosaur?

What was the typical life span of a dinosaur? It depends on the size and species, of course.

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Space photo of the week: Ancient 'labyrinth of night' on Mars, one of the biggest mazes in the solar system

Take a trip through the maze-like valleys and canyons of a unique place in the solar system: Mars' 'labyrinth of night.'

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Do any animals keep pets like humans do?

Humans have all kinds of pets, but do any other animals have them too?

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Indian giant squirrel: The 'rainbow' rodent that is also the world's largest squirrel

Indian giant squirrels, with their extraordinarily colorful fur, are found in forests and woodlands of India.

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1.6-billion-year-old fossils push back origin of multicellular life by tens of millions of years

Researchers uncovered fossils of multicellular eukaryotes that are over a billion years old.

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Europe approves LISA, a next-generation space mission that will discover the faintest ripples in space-time

The new LISA gravitational wave detector, which will be launched into orbit in 2035, promises to detect cosmic collisions from the earliest moments after the Big Bang.

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Can humans sense wetness?

Yes, we know the feeling of getting stuck in a rainstorm. But can we really sense the wetness on our skin?

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Poisoned AI went rogue during training and couldn't be taught to behave again in 'legitimately scary' study

AI researchers found that widely used safety training techniques failed to remove malicious behavior from large language models — and one technique even backfired, teaching the AI to recognize its triggers and better hide its bad behavior from the researchers.

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Even Stone Age people burned their porridge, 5,000-year-old food-scorched clay pot reveals

Thousands of years ago, a Neolithic person tried cooking porridge but ended up burning it.

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NASA's historic Ingenuity helicopter ends its 3-year Mars mission, suffering rotor damage on 72nd flight

NASA's Ingeunity helicopter has finally ended its three-year mission on Mars after sustaining irreparable rotor damage on its 72nd flight over the Red Planet. It was only designed to fly five times.

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Physics-breaking 'rogue' objects spotted by James Webb telescope are emitting radio signals that scientists can't explain

A bizarre object discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope may be a pair of 'rogue' planets ― but a new study finds they are emitting radio signals rarely seen from other worlds.

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Gene therapies restore hearing in several kids with inherited deafness

Two new gene therapies show promise in treating otoferlin-related deafness, an inherited condition.

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Infant's 'inconsolable,' day-long crying fits tied to botulism from honey

A baby's increasingly long, frequent crying episodes turned out to be related to infant botulism.

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World's largest deep-sea coral reef found lurking beneath the Gulf Stream 'right on the doorstep' of US coast

A new deep-sea mapping project has revealed near-continuous reefs of cold-water corals spanning an area the size of Vermont just off the southeast U.S. coastline.

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Bigfoot? Sasquatch? Nope, it's probably just a black bear — unless you live in Florida

Bigfoot reports across North America have been linked to the presence of black bears, but the research can't account for sightings in Florida.

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Remains of 4,000-year-old 'lost' tomb discovered in Ireland

The tomb was said to have been demolished in the 19th century, but a new search has found its location.

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Pangolin courtship ritual and birth of a 'pangopup' captured in incredible, rare footage

Pangolin courtship rituals can last hours and require lots of adjusting for the couple's scaly armor, incredible new footage shot for the PBS series "Big Little Journeys" reveals.

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January's full 'Wolf Moon' rises Thursday. Here's how to see it at its best.

The first full moon of 2024, sometimes nicknamed the Wolf Moon, will rise into winter skies this week, appearing bright and full from Wednesday to Friday.

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Can dogs and cats be allergic to humans?

If people can be allergic to pets, can pets be allergic to people?

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This video of a robot making coffee could signal a huge step in the future of AI robotics. Why?

Most robots are preprogrammed to perform specific functions, but Figure's humanoid Figure 01 machine — that learns by watching and corrects its own mistakes — might upend the field.

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2-mile-thick layer of frozen water found buried at Mars' equator

The Mars Express orbiter has detected enough water ice buried beneath the Red Planet's equator to cover the entire planet in a shallow ocean if melted.

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Bird flu wipes out over 95% of southern elephant seal pups in 'catastrophic' mass death

Over 17,000 southern elephant seal pups were found dead on Argentina's Valdés Peninsula in a horrific mass die off attributed to the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus.

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Controversial study claims megalodon didn't look like a 50-foot giant great white shark

Scientists say they have discovered a discrepancy in previous research and suggest megalodons may have been longer and more slender than previously believed — but not everyone is convinced.

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4 never-before-seen octopuses discovered in deep sea off Costa Rica

Enigmatic octopuses that have been newly discovered in the waters off Costa Rica add to a growing registry of deep-sea dwellers.

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Space photo of the week: Observatory, or alien planet? Boggle your mind with this 360-degree image

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which could change astronomy forever when it comes online this August, looks like a planet all its own in this surreal new photo.

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Why is wool itchy?

Why does wearing wool clothing sometimes lead to insatiable itching?

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Watch 5,000 fire ants create raft with their bodies to save colony and queen from death by swimming pool

Video footage from a new series captures thousands of ants building a living-raft to save the colony from drowning in a swimming pool.

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Loggerhead shrike: The brutal 'butcherbird' that impales its prey on barbed wire

Loggerhead shrikes can kill prey bigger than themselves by stabbing and shaking them, before impaling them on sticks to eat later.

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Why does Norway have so many fjords?

Fjords, many of them sculpted over many ice ages, can form all over Earth. So why does Norway have so many?

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Explosive, green 'devil comet' photobombs ethereal nebula as it races toward Earth

The green-tinged cryovolcanic Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which is due to pass by Earth later this year, was recently spotted zooming past the crimson-colored Crescent Nebula in stunning new photos.

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Cosmic strings can break — and when they do, they shake the universe

Many models of the universe predict the existence of countless invisible strings stretching across space. New research finds a way these strings might snap — and how we could feel the fallout.

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Scientists used AI to build a low-lithium battery from a new material that took just hours to discover

Microsoft's AI tool narrowed 32 million theoretical materials down to 18 in just 80 hours — with scientists synthesizing one that can reduce Lithium usage in batteries by 70%.

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'Extremely rare' 2,500-year-old broken silver coin unearthed near Jerusalem

The find is rare evidence that such early coins were being used for commerce in the region.

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Forensic scientists have a new fingerprint-matching tool in their arsenal thanks to AI, but it's sparked a controversy

The new technique uses a machine learning tool to match prints from different digits belonging to the same person, but forensic scientists disagree on its utility.

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Babylon's Ishtar Gate may have a totally different purpose than we thought, magnetic field measurements suggest

Archaeologists measured the magnetic fields found in clay bricks to determine the construction date of Babylon's Ishtar Gate.

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'Grindavik remains at risk': Attempts to dam the lava from Iceland's erupting volcano could fail, volcanologist warns

Dams built to protect the Icelandic town of Grindavík from rushing lava may not be enough, a volcanologist cautions.

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Save $200 on this HP Chromebook, perfect for students

If you're a student using Google services, this Chromebook is a snip.

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Part of Hadrian's 1,800-year-old aqueduct and rare Greek coins unearthed near Corinth

The enormous aqueduct was built in the second century to carry water to the city of Corinth from a lake 50 miles away.

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Resilience is a skill that can be cultivated, a psychologist explains

Resilience is not a static quality but rather a set of skills that can be developed over time.

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Mummified skin from creature that lived 290 million years ago is older than the dinosaurs

Crocodile-like skin from a reptile is 130 million years older than the previous record for fossilized skin, researchers say.

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Color-changing fish turns black with rage when provoked

Aggressive little male fish from Indonesia turn black when angry to show their dominance, scientists discover.

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'We do not understand how it can exist': Astronomers baffled by 'almost invisible' dwarf galaxy that upends a dark matter theory

Astronomers have discovered a super diffuse dwarf galaxy, named Nube, which gives off barely any visible light and seemingly defies explanation.

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4,000-year-old wall found around oasis in Saudi Arabia likely defended 'against raids from nomads'

Ancient people in what is now Saudi Arabia built a 9-mile-long wall along the Khaybar Oasis, which still exists today.

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Japan's coastline moved over 800 feet after the devastating Jan 1. earthquake

Satellite images captured striking changes in the coastline of Japan's Noto Peninsula following a massive earthquake on New Year's Day.

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5 stories making science news this week: A Pacific 'superstructure' and an ancient Roman bullet

Jan. 14, 2024: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

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Fountains of diamonds that erupt from Earth's center are revealing the lost history of supercontinents

Diamonds seem to reach Earth's surface in massive volcanic eruptions when supercontinents break up, and they form when continents come together.

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Space photo of the week: Hubble spies a dwarf galaxy

The irregular dwarf galaxy UGC 8091 is likely a building block of ‘grand design’ galaxies like our Milky Way.

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Which planet is closest to Earth? (Hint: There's more than 1 right answer.)

It may initially seem like a simple question, but determining which planet is closest to Earth is surprisingly tricky and can have multiple correct answers.

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American burying beetle: The meat-eating insect that buries bodies for its babies to feast on

American burying beetle parents work together to find and bury a dead animal that its brood can consume after hatching.

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Columbia, Rodinia and Pangaea: A history of Earth's supercontinents

Scientists have identified three definitive supercontinents in Earth's history and predict the landmasses we live on today will come together again in the future.

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Is it possible to reach absolute zero?

To reach absolute zero, all of the particles within an object have to stop moving.

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'A big cosmological mystery': Newfound cosmic corkscrew defies our understanding of the universe

The structure is so large, it defies one of the simplest rules of cosmology.

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Giganto, world's largest ape, went down poor evolutionary path toward extinction

Gigantopithecus blacki went extinct at least 215,000 years ago after climate change caused its forest home to vanish.

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Brand-new class of antibiotic kills drug-resistant superbug

Scientists discovered a new class of antibiotic that kills bacteria in a unique way and isn't vulnerable to existing drug resistance.

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2,700-year-old temple with altar overflowing with jewel-studded offerings unearthed on Greek island

The temple sits adjacent to a sanctuary dedicated to the Greek goddess Artemis.

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Hubble tracks farthest and most powerful fast radio burst back to 'blob' of 7 galaxies

The most powerful and distant fast radio burst ever seen has been tracked to a "blob" of galaxies that existed when the universe was less than half its current age.

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World's tiniest fanged frog with males that 'hug' their babies discovered

Researchers found a new species of fanged frog when they noticed clutches of eggs laid on leaves and mossy boulders unusually far above water.

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Want to ask ChatGPT about your kid's symptoms? Think again — it's right only 17% of the time

The AI chatbot provided incorrect diagnoses in 72 pediatric cases from a sample of 100 historic cases, while offering diagnoses in a further 11 that were deemed too broad to be correct.

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Mysterious 'Green Monster' lurking in James Webb photo of supernova remnant is finally explained

'We've never had this kind of look at an exploded star before.'

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$600 off this laptop from Best Buy is a huge deal for coders

You can grab this powerful Lenovo laptop for just $799.99 while stocks last.

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Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 review

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 is a great-looking smartwatch that packs plenty of features — but comes with disappointing battery life.

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Extinct 'hypercarnivorous' California grizzly bears were actually mostly vegetarian before Europeans showed up

Although extinct California grizzlies upped their meat consumption following European colonization and agricultural expansion, they were mostly veggie and smaller than what historical sources claim.

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Why multitasking is challenging for kids and older adults

A professor of developmental psychology explains why our ability to multitask changes as we age.

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Gene variant guards against Parkinson's and could lead to therapies

A study uncovers the likely reasons why a rare genetic quirk is tied to protection against Parkinson's disease.

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Huge, complete mammoth tusk accidentally discovered by North Dakota coal miners

A tusk scooped up my miners in North Dakota turned out to be one of the most complete skeletons of a mammoth ever discovered in the state.

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The Fitbit Inspire 3 is back down to its Black Friday price

One of the best fitness trackers around is less than $70.

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Why do we procrastinate?

Here's what you need to know about procrastination if your New Year's resolution is to stop dragging your feet.

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Deadly male funnel-web spider 'Hercules' breaks record as biggest ever discovered

"Hercules" the funnel-web spider is the largest male of the species ever found.

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World’s 1st graphene semiconductor could power future quantum computers

Scientists overcame a limitation in graphene to harness the material as a working semiconductor at terahertz frequencies with 10 times the mobility of silicon.

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Why does poop smell bad?

And for medical purposes, how stinky is too stinky?

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5 stories making science news this week: A T. rex saga and massive solar flare

Jan. 7, 2024: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

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Space photo of the week: An eerie look at Io, the most volcanic world in the solar system

In our favorite space image of the week, NASA's Juno spacecraft got an unprecedented look at Jupiter's volcanic moon Io from just 930 miles away.

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Why do cats throw up so much?

What you think is cat vomit may actually be something else, like a fur ball or regurgitation.

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How 10 animals evolved their iconic features

Why are whales so big? Why are giraffe's necks so long? Here are the origins of 10 iconic features in the animal kingdom.

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Why does the moon sometimes have a 'halo'?

The moon's halo is always 22 degrees wide in the night sky when it appears. So what causes it?

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2nd tuberculosis outbreak linked to bone grafts in the US

Following two recent outbreaks, health officials have issued new guidance around how to screen donated tissues for tuberculosis.

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$420 off this HP Envy 2-in1 makes it an excellent choice for students

This laptop is perfect for students, and reduced by almost 50%.

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2,500-year-old burials of 3 people discovered in a cave in Mexico

Archaeologists found the remains of two adolescents and one baby in the chamber of a cave, but it's not yet clear how they died.

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Megalodon tooth found on unexplored seamount 10,000 feet below the ocean's surface

A remotely operated submersible was deep in a never-before-studied part of the ocean when it extracted the megalodon tooth.

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'Terror beast' fossils unearthed in Greenland are more than half a billion years old

Enormous for its time period, this newly discovered marine worm likely ruled the seas at the top of the food chain.

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One of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way is hiding a second galaxy behind it, new research reveals

New observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud show that it might actually be two galaxies disguised as one.

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180-foot early medieval carving of naked bald man with club is probably Hercules, new study suggests

The huge chalk carving in the English countryside was likely a meeting place for local forces rallying against the Vikings.

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Missions to the moon, Mars, Jupiter and more: These are the coolest space missions in 2024

Ambitious new missions to the moon, Venus, Jupiter and more are planned for 2024. Here is a preview of the exciting year in space ahead.

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Total solar eclipse April 2024: The 10 biggest cities within the path of totality

On April 8, 2024, more than 31 million people in North America will witness a total solar eclipse, around a third of them in just 10 cities.

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Watch parasitic worms get pulled from man's abdomen after surprise discovery during routine surgery

When doctors peered into a man's abdomen during routine surgery, they didn't expect to find five living worms in there.

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Nanotyrannus vs. T. rex saga continues: Controversial study 'doesn't settle the question at all'

A new study of long-debated dinosaur fossils has found growth patterns inconsistent with those of T. rex, suggesting the bones belong to a distinct species, but other experts aren't convinced.

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How long can the brain survive without oxygen?

When the brain's supply of oxygen is reduced or eliminated, damage can set in very quickly.

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Monstrous X5 solar flare launched on New Year's Eve could bring auroras to Earth tonight

In the final hours of Dec. 31, 2023, the sun launched its most powerful solar flare in 6 years. On Jan. 2, radiation from the blast may bring auroras to Earth's skies.

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'Eyes coming straight for me': Huge crocodile launches itself into boat with jaws wide open in strange attack

Queensland authorities are on the lookout for a crocodile reported to have leapt into a fisher's boat at Jane Creek before losing its balance and tumbling back into the water.

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Why is it called 'morning sickness' if it can happen any time of day?

Pregnancy sickness can happen at any time of day or night, but its symptoms can often be worse in the morning.

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Full moons of 2024: Names, dates and everything you need to know

Find out exactly when to see the full moons of 2024, including dates for supermoons and a two lunar eclipses.

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The 10 best stargazing events of 2024

The 2024 stargazing guide includes a rare total solar eclipse, two bright comet flybys and three supermoons. Here are all the dates you need to know.

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Quadrantid meteor shower 2024: The year's 1st meteor shower blazes over North America on Jan. 3

Up to 120 shooting stars per hour could be visible during a brief peak of the Quadrantid meteor shower — the year's first meteor shower, coming to North America Jan. 3 and 4.

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What's the farthest place the Vikings reached?

The Vikings reached as far west as Newfoundland, but did they also venture into Africa, the Middle East and Asia?

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