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Norway’s Largest Viking Coin Hoard Just Kept Growing — And Experts Are Still Counting
Nearly 5,000 medieval coins have now been pulled from a single site in rural Norway…
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What a Medieval Studies Scholar Told a Room Full of Academics About Teaching in Troubled Times
What happens when the debates raging outside the classroom walls are more urgent — and more unresolved — than anything…
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Birds Singing Near Your Home May Signal Something Bigger Than Noise
That birdsong drifting through your window in the middle of the afternoon is not random.…
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Spain Welcomed Its First Malayan Tapir Calf After 20 Years of Trying
Fewer than 2,500 Malayan tapirs are believed to survive in the wild. That number alone…
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A Medieval Ship Found Under Tallinn Still Holds Its Crew’s Belongings After 650 Years
Just 1.5 meters below a busy Tallinn street, construction crews in 2022 broke through the…
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Millions of Pets Could Cross EU Borders Differently After 2028
What happens when you try to bring your dog or cat into the European Union…
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The Milky Way May Be Floating on a Dark Matter Sheet Nobody Mapped
What if the Milky Way isn’t just floating in space — but is actually resting…
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Ancient Forest Fires Found in Asia Are 237 Million Years Old
Wildfires feel like a crisis of our time — worsened by drought, fanned by heat,…
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El Niño Is Heading Toward Its Strongest Phase in 150 Years
There is now a 65% chance that the El Niño developing this year will be…
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160 Sayings From a Medieval Monk That Guided Early Christian Ascetics
What does it mean to live a truly disciplined life? A collection of 160 sayings…
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Artemis II Astronauts Heard Gasps During Their Solar Eclipse View From Space
For 53 minutes on April 6, the sun vanished behind the moon — and four…
Environment
Mexico’s Soil Bacteria Could Grow Crops Where Chemicals Have Failed
Beneath the cracked, sun-baked surface of a field at the end of a dry Mexican…
Environment
Scientists Say the Pacific Ocean Has Moved Beyond Surprising
The Pacific Ocean off Japan is no longer behaving the way scientists expect it to…
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Scientists Celebrated Finding the Last Mammoth Bones — DNA Said Otherwise
For more than 70 years, two large fossil bones sat inside the University of Alaska…
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Chinese Scientists Built a Magnet So Powerful It Raises a Real Question
A magnet 700,000 times stronger than Earth’s own magnetic field is now operating inside a…
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Artemis II Crew Captured in Pixels Orbiting the Moon — All Four of Them
A handful of black and white pixels captured from more than 200,000 miles away may…
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A Single Pill Can Now Stop COVID From Developing After Exposure
Six years into the COVID-19 era, scientists may have finally cracked one of the most…
Environment
Fossils and Climate Models Just Pinpointed Where Homo Sapiens Were Born
Where exactly did modern humans first appear on Earth? It sounds like a simple question,…
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Elite Roman Woman Buried With Exotic Resins Unearthed in Colchester
Archaeologists working in Colchester, England, have uncovered one of the most remarkable Roman-era burials found…
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Scientists Want to Build an 80km Wall Beneath Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier
A glacier the size of Florida is melting faster than scientists expected — and a…
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A Little-Known Receptor Just Made Mouse Bones Stronger Than Expected
Every time you take a step, climb a staircase, or carry something heavy, your skeleton…
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Pet Owners Are Ditching Traditional Air Purifiers for This Self-Cleaning One
For anyone who shares their home with a cat or dog, the battle against pet…