Jul 16
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The closest images ever taken of the Sun have revealed a never-before-seen stellar phenomenon. Dubbed “campfires,”…
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Jul 15
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For archaeologists, ancient bones and stone tools are important lines of evidence, but sometimes the answers to our…
Jul 14
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The world’s largest soaring bird—the Andean condor—can stay aloft for 5 hours and cover more than 100 miles of real…
Jul 14
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The Emirates Hope Mission, scheduled to launch this Friday, is the first Arab attempt to reach the Red Planet.…
Jul 13
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Preparatory work for a high-speed rail project in Britain has resulted in some interesting archaeological…
Jul 10
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You may have heard about Planet Nine—a hypothetical planet thought to exist in the outer reaches of the solar…
Jul 10
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The tragic Notre Dame cathedral fire last year produced more lead fallout than was initially reported by French…
Jul 9
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Comet NEOWISE has completed its close approach to the Sun and is now returning from whence it came. Visible comets…
Jul 9
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Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered the well-preserved remains of a cat that died over 1,000 years ago…
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Indigenous South Americans reached islands in the South Pacific some 300 years before Christopher Columbus landed in…
Jul 7
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An independent NASA-Boeing review team has completed its investigation into serious issues that arose during a test…
Jul 6
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Underwater caves in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula have yielded evidence of a prehistoric ochre mine, in a discovery…
Jul 3
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Scientists have detected snake-like dental glands in caecilians, which means these serpentine creatures might…
Jul 3
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Over 350 elephants have died in Botswana since March, sparking a government probe to investigate the mysterious…
Jul 3
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An amateur astronomer in South Africa has detected a bright new surface feature rising above the cloud tops on…
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A new bird song is spreading like wildfire among Canadian white-throated sparrows, at a scale not seen before by…
Jun 30
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Fossils rarely retain evidence of an organism’s original color, but these 99-million-year-old amber fossils found in…
Jun 30
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Marine biologists from Japan say whale sharks have eyeballs coated in tiny teeth, in a discovery unique to this…