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A Medieval Ship Found Underground in the Netherlands May Rewrite Trade History
Beneath an ordinary street in the Dutch town of Wijk bij Duurstede, a routine sewer…
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Canadian Fossils Just Pushed Complex Animal Evolution Back 10 Million Years
For three billion years, life on Earth was essentially invisible — a world of microbes too small to see, too…
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China Turned Dragon Fruit Peels Into EV Battery Material — And the Method Changes Everything
What if the peels you throw away every time you eat dragon fruit could end…
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What Whaler Skeletons Reveal About a Life of Pain and Scurvy
A place called “Corpse Point” holds the remains of hundreds of whalers who died at…
Environment
A 4,600-Year-Old Serbian Tomb With Gold and Human Teeth Is Rewriting Bronze Age History
Three teeth pulled from ancient graves along the Serbian Danube are quietly rewriting what archaeologists…
Science
An Asthma Drug Just Did Something Unexpected in Cancer Research
What if a pill already sitting in millions of medicine cabinets — one prescribed every…
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Physicists Confirm Photons Can Spend Negative Time Inside Atoms
Light is supposed to travel in one direction through time — forward, like everything else.…
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Sea-Level Studies Had Flawed Baselines — And Millions May Face Higher Flood Risk
Hundreds of sea-level studies may have been built on a flawed foundation — and the…
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Ancient Appalachian Mountains Hold Lithium for 500 Billion Phones
Buried beneath one of America’s oldest and most beloved mountain ranges is a mineral deposit…
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Medieval Music Manuscripts Were Quietly Shaping Political Power All Along
What did a corrupt horse have to do with medieval religion? More than you might…
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Campi Flegrei Is Nearing a Breaking Point and Naples Is Watching
Half a million people live inside a volcano — and scientists say it may be…
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Colorectal Cancer Is Falling in Older Adults — But Rising Fast in Younger People
Colorectal cancer is supposed to be a disease of aging — something people worry about…
Environment
A 400-Year-Old Greenland Shark Was Found Alive and Its Age Changes Everything
A shark that was already swimming through Arctic waters when the Thirty Years’ War was…
Environment
The Tiny Animals That Quietly Brought Mount St. Helens Back to Life
When a volcano obliterates 230 square miles of landscape in a single morning, you might…
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A Deadly Box Jellyfish Found Near Singapore Turned Out to Be Entirely New
A jellyfish capable of killing a human being was hiding in plain sight near one…
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Scientists Found 248 Man-Made Chemicals in Seawater Far From Any Coast
Scientists have found 248 man-made chemicals lurking in seawater samples collected from across the globe…
Science
PCOS Just Got a New Name and People Have a Lot to Say About It
About 1 in 8 women worldwide live with a condition that has, until now, been…
Environment
Chinese Farmer Built a Working Submarine for $700 — Now He Wants to Go Deeper
With roughly $700 in parts and no formal engineering training, a 60-year-old farmer from eastern…
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598 Gold Coins Found in a Stone Wall — But the Real Mystery Is Who Never Came Back
Inside a stone wall on a wooded hillside in northeastern Czechia, someone had tucked away…
Science
What Archaeologists Found Inside a 1,200-Year-Old Giant Stone Vessel Confirms a Long-Held Theory
Inside a massive stone jar buried in the highlands of Laos, archaeologists have uncovered something…
Environment
The Real Bat Epidemic Risk Has Nothing to Do With the Bat Itself
More than 70% of human emerging infectious diseases trace back to animals — and a…
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A Pompeii Victim Was Carrying a Doctor’s Kit When Vesuvius Erupted
Nearly 2,000 years after Mount Vesuvius buried the city of Pompeii in ash and gas,…