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Victor Glover Is About to Make History in a Way No Astronaut Ever Has
For the first time in more than half a century, human beings are preparing to…
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Bacteria Found Alive Beneath Fukushima Reactors Stun Scientists
Beneath one of the most damaged nuclear reactor buildings on Earth, in water containing roughly 1 billion becquerels of cesium-137…
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A Chance Discovery Just Changed What We Know About Tudor Necklaces
Half a millennium ago, a skilled goldsmith crafted a small but extraordinary object — a…
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Japan’s Ocean Is Behaving in Ways Scientists Have Never Seen Before
Sea surface temperatures off Japan’s Sanriku coast have been running about 6 degrees Celsius above…
History
The Medieval Persian Text Whose Authorship Has Never Been Settled
What is the real version of a book? It sounds like a simple question —…
Environment
Scotland’s Seabed Has Perfect Giant Rings and No One Knows Why
Hundreds of near-perfect circular formations have appeared on the seafloor off the coast of Scotland…
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Stephen Hawking’s Warning About False Certainty Still Cuts Deep Today
What separates a scientist who truly advances human understanding from one who simply reinforces what…
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Workers Broke Ground on a Building — and Found a 28-Meter Sauropod
Construction workers in southwestern China weren’t expecting to make history. But in 1998, during routine…
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Saturn Seen Like Never Before as Webb and Hubble Combine Their Eyes
Saturn has captivated astronomers for centuries, but two of the most powerful space telescopes ever…
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History
DNA Is Finally Revealing Who Lies in Winchester’s Medieval Mortuary Chests
For nearly four centuries, the bones of medieval kings and bishops lay jumbled together inside…
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Rome’s underground tunnels reveal a 2,000-year-old secret that changes everything we knew
Carmela Rodriguez never imagined that a single phone call would change her understanding of history…