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Archaeologists have discovered a massive Etruscan burial mound with a vast assortment of grave goods north of Rome.
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NASA has announced that a new telescope concept called PRIMA is moving forward in consideration for a 2033 launch to look at the origins of planets and galaxies.
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Archaeologists in Paris have discovered the remains of a missing Celtic fort sacked by Julius Caesar in 52 B.C.
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Nearly 2,400-year-old school where Aristotle taught Alexander the Great discovered in Greece
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The newly described dinosaur is only the third nodosaurid fossil found in Asia. Researchers say its ancestors may have migrated from North America.
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A new high-resolution map of global freshwater trends between 2002 and 2025 has sharpened scientists' understanding of how humans are using and displacing our most precious resource.
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The 'Book of the Dead' guided ancient Egyptians in the underworld.
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Hurricane Polo exploded from a tropical storm into a powerful Category 5 hurricane in less than 24 hours and is one of the strongest Pacific hurricanes on record.
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An astronaut photo captured an unusual salt patch shining like snow on top of northern Chad's imposing Emi Koussi volcano, which is covered with ancient lava, hidden vents and shadowy waterways.
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Scientists have found the first convincing direct evidence of radio signals coming out of the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b.
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Japan switches on its first full-stack room-temperature quantum computer — and scientists plan to scale it up to 10,000 qubits
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Archaeologists unearthed a horse burial dating back more than three millennia in an ancient Egyptian fortress.
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Earth's crust is 'unzipping' beneath Italy — and that could explain most of the earthquakes in the region
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In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers compiled data from 103 bat genomes and 44 fossils to rewrite the bat family tree and determine where these animals first evolved.
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Curiosity has been photographing Mars in its search for evidence of water and life for over 5,000 Martian days. Here are 10 of the most surprising and weird photos the rover has sent back to Earth.
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How much do you know about the Mariana Trench?
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Hurricane Polo exploded from a tropical storm into a powerful Category 5 hurricane in less than 24 hours on Tuesday.
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More than 900 Roman silver coins from the time of the Emperor Hadrian were found in Germany by a metal detectorist.
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Archaeologists excavating in the ancient Hittite capital of Hattusha have uncovered a fragment of the world's oldest peace treaty, signed around 1269 B.C.
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Google DeepMind's latest AI tool promises a new era for genetics research, but experts warn to take its predictions with caution
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New research has pinned down the onset of the "RNA World," a hypothetical time in Earth's very early history when RNA was the primary replicating substance.
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Newfound 'fire amoeba from the Cascades' sets record for the hottest temperature complex life can survive at
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A new sensor reduces the amount of energy required for visual imaging by processing light at the point of detection.
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A face-down burial of a middle-aged woman who died around 700 years ago in China is the world's first evidence of punitive nasal amputation.
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Astronomers looking at Vera C. Rubin Observatory test data have discovered 'Aquarius IV', believed to be a brand new satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located 350,000 light-years away.
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When giant systems of ancient caves far below the surface of Australia collapsed, it left distinctive clues at the surface.
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US heading for unprecedented El Niño winter: Here's what to expect
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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has taken its first pictures of space as it heads toward its orbital location. From there, it will begin scanning deep space to uncover more about our universe.
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The Southern Taurid meteor shower, one of the longest-running meteor showers of the year, is on from now until later November. Here are the two peak nights to watch for.
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A 2,000-year-old gold face covering designed to confuse the deceased's spirit so it didn't torment the living
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The offspring of mice that spend time on the International Space Station are more vulnerable to external stressors, a new study finds. More work is needed to understand potential health impacts on human astronauts' families.
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A paper-based, ingestible battery powered medical devices inside pigs for up to three days before gradually breaking down, a new study reported.
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New research suggests that a perplexing signal created by a pair of colliding black holes may have been warped by a space-time phenomenon known as gravitational lensing. This theory could finally explain the "impossible" size of the merging singularities, but it also poses a new problem.
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A unique AI test environment resulted in crimes and self-destruction, and its makers say it's the best way to figure out how AI can behave in the real world.
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Archaeologists discovered the two-sided pendant, which features a snake-slaying saint and a snake-haired woman, during an excavation in northwestern Russia.
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A genetic mutation that raises lung cancer risk was much more common among those born in Southeastern states than elsewhere in the U.S.
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A Royal Observatory Greenwich contest showcased work from around the night sky and the solar system, with prize-winning photos spanning topics ranging from auroras to planets.
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For the first time in a century, scientists have identified a new cat species, thanks to genetic analysis — and it's resolved a long-standing debate about the cat family tree.
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Live Science spoke with Amazon researcher Bernardo Flores about how El Niño could help drive Earth's largest tropical rainforest past a globe-altering tipping point.
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Researchers in Australia captured footage of a female humpback whale repeatedly diving to make eye contact with her stillborn calf and lay next to its body on the seafloor.
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Scientists have devised a new way to incorporate human brain tissue into living mice, opening the door to new research.
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Do other animals call each other by name?
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Using X-ray technologies and custom-made software, researchers were able to read text they wrote on a fake ancient scroll designed to mimic those destroyed at Herculaneum in A.D. 79.
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Tooth analysis has revealed that the king of the dinosaurs was as warm-blooded as a human or an elephant
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This first-of-its-kind concept laptop integrates near-silent cooling technology to remove waste heat.
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We're not about to awaken an evil digital god — AI is far more likely to end in a great disappointment
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Are you worried about the US deploying weapons in space?
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James Webb Space Telescope observations of Chariklo, one of the smallest ringed worlds in the solar system, reveal some inexplicable changes.
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A 2020 astronaut photo shows the unusual point where two contrastingly colored Patagonian lakes meet. The duo was originally a single body of water but was split by a narrow land bridge.
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