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Archaeologists Used Cosmic Rays to Illuminate a Secret 7,000-Year-Old Settlement

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All About Math

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Mathematicians Gave a Billiard Ball a Brain—and It Led to Something Unbelievable

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A Wonder Clock Has Rocked the Scientific World

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Machines About to Tackle Fermat’s Last Theorem

By Caroline Delbert

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Can AI Help Solve Math’s Thorniest Mysteries?

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The History of Pi

By David Grossman

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Dark Matter Could Unlock a Limitless Energy Source

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A Groundbreaking Discovery For Light-Speed Travel

By Manasee Wagh

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The Source of All Consciousness May Be Black Holes

By Tim Andersen

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Could Freezing Your Brain Help You Live Forever?

By Ashley Stimpson

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Animals

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Instability Could Be Necessary Rule of Biology

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How a Small Bison Herd Makes a Big Climate Impact

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Can Cloning Bring This Ferret Back from the Brink?

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Scientists Are Building a Noah’s Ark for Corals

Archaeology

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Medieval Denarii ‘Jackpot’ Unearthed

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Scientist Says Maryland Was Home to Ice-Age Humans

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New Info Shows How Egyptians Built the Pyramids

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Experts Find 'Anomaly' Near the Great Pyramids

Earth

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There Are 5,251 Holes Lining California's Coast

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Uncovering the Origin Story of the ‘Tree of Life'

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Past CO2 Rise Can't Even Compare to Climate Change

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Ancient Collision May Have Created Plate Tectonics

Our Robotic Future

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This Tiny Jumping Robot Can Right Itself Mid-Leap

By Manasee Wagh

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Scientists Turn Dead Spiders Into Creepy Grippers

By Manasee Wagh

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11 Weird Robots That Will Change How We Live

By Manasee Wagh

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Dyson’s New Robot Will Clean Up Your House For You

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Energy

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Solving the Mystery of High-Temp Superconductors

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Korea’s Artificial Sun Shattered a Fusion Record

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8 Ways to Power Your Home With Renewable Energy

By Avery Thompson and Joseph Truini

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Scientists May Have Tamed Fusion’s #1 Nemesis

Green Tech

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A Quartz Thermal Trap Is About to Change Smelting

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Tungsten Tokamak Breaks Another Fusion Record

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Here’s How We Could Live in Trees

By Stav Dimitropoulos

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You Can Give Your Body Back to Nature When You Die

By Caroline Delbert

Health

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Keeping our Clock Synched Up Could Keep Us Young

By Jackie Appel

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Is Memory the Key to Understanding Consciousness?

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This Patient Had a COVID Infection for Two Years

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Training Puts Soldiers Insides Under Siege

Physics

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Immortality Is Impossible Until We Beat Physics

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How a Lunar Supercollider Could Upend Physics

By Caroline Delbert

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Is Consciousness Everywhere All at Once?

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One Particle Could Shatter Our Concept of Reality

By Paul M. Sutter

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More Science

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A Whole New Cat Color Has Emerged

By Jackie Appel

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The Army’s Laser Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be

By Kyle Mizokami

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Ancient Chinese Skull Giving Clues to Dragon Man

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Ancient Roman ‘Service Station’ Discovered in UK

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Quantum Entanglement May Be Reversible

By Caroline Delbert

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Scientists See Weird Effects By Squishing Atoms

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Ancient Chinese Tomb Shows Family-Style Design

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Did Physicists Find the Ever-Elusive Glueball?

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Humans’ First North American Footsteps Tracked

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ChatGPT Just Passed the Moral Turing Test

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Simulations Warn of Earth Turning Inhospitable

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Ancient Human Lava Tube Habitation Discovered

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Kitchen Renovation Yields 17th Century Coin Hoard

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Discovery May Create New Breed of Capacitors

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A 152-Year-Old Shipwreck Found While Fishing

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Meet the Taam Ja': The World's Largest Blue Hole

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Huge Discovery Could Ease World's Helium Woes

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Bodies Mysteriously Mummified in Andes Town

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Ancient Egyptian Pharoah’s Vacation Home Unearthed

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Did ‘Micro Buckling' Cause the Titan Sub’s Doom

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Henrietta Lacks Never Asked to Be Immortal

By Michael Natale

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CERN Approves Project for Finding Hidden Particles

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This 'Cage of Cages' Stores CO2 Faster Than Trees

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5 Hydrothermal Vents Have Appeared in the Ocean