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"Haunted" Maya Underwater Cave Holds Human Bones
Underwater archaeologists have found human bones at the bottom of a Maya cenote in Mexico.
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Fossils reveal how fish made transition from water to land
Since the discovery of Tiktaalik roseae a decade ago, it has been hailed as an important link in the evolution of terrestrial animals. New analysis of the Tiktaalik fossils explains how animals were able to make the transition from water to land hundreds of millions of years ago. The study was led by Neil Shubin of the University of Chicago and was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Ball Lightning isn't just a myth, it's real and has been recorded for the first time ever...
For centuries, people have reported seeing luminous, spherical orbs during storms — a phenomenon known as “ball lightning”.
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Natural 3-D counterpart to graphene discovered: New form of quantum matter
A natural 3-D counterpart to 2-D graphene with similar or even better electron mobility and velocity has been discovered. This discovery promises exciting new things to come for the high-tech industry, including much faster transistors and far more compact hard drives.
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Rock turns into soil at a 'shockingly fast' pace
New measurements from steep mountaintops in New Zealand show that rock can transform into soil more than twice as fast as previously believed possible.
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A Robot Accidently Discovered An Amazing Upside Down World In Antarctica
A robot being used to study ocean currents has stumbled on a reverse world in the Antarctic where fish swim upside down, sea anemones hang down instead of grow up, and strange turtle-like creatures float just under the ice. Scientists lowered a 1.4 metre cylinder equipped with two cameras into a hole bored through the 270-metre-thick shelf of ice over the Ross Sea.
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How the Higgs Boson Was Found
Before the elusive particle could be discovered—a smashing success—it had to be imagined
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Giant Trench Under Antarctic Ice Deeper Than Grand Canyon
Scientists probing the icelands of West Antarctica have discovered a subglacial pit that is deeper than the Grand Canyon. The researchers were charting the Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands-an ancient mountain range buried beneath several miles of Antarctic ice-by combining data from satellites and ice-penetrating radar towed behind snowmobiles and onboard small aircraft.
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CERN Scientists Create Antihydrogen Atoms
Physicists from CERN's ASACUSA project say they have produced at least 80 atoms of antihydrogen.
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Stephen Hawking: 'There are no black holes'
Notion of an 'event horizon', from which nothing can escape, is incompatible with quantum theory, physicist claims.
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Kazakh mathematician may have solved $1 million puzzle
Mathematics may be a universal language but a possible proof of a fiendish problem is proving hard to evaluate – partly because it isn't written in English.
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Over 500 artifacts discovered in undersea trove near Jindo
Off the southern coast of Korea near Jindo Island, a team of Korean archaeologists have discovered a cornucopia of relics that they hope will provide a glimpse into the country’s rich history of cultural assets. Among the artifacts are a pair of ceramic jars believed to date back to the Three Kingdoms era (57 to 668 AD) and two items that look like yogo, an ancient prototype of janggo, the traditional hourglass-shaped double headed drum.
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Stephen Hawking declares: 'There are no black holes'
Consternation and angst reign after the famed physicist suggests there are no black holes from which light can't escape to infinity. Read this article by Chris Matyszczyk on CNET News.
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58-Million-Year-Old Flying Seabird Discovered in New Zealand
An international group of paleontologists reported the discovery of a fossil seabird species that lived in what is modern New Zealand during the early Paleocene, around 58 million years ago. The bird, named Australornis lovei, is one of the world’s oldest species of flying seabirds.
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When did humans really begin to control fire? It could be 300,000 years ago.
Scientists discovered in the Qesem Cave, an archaeological site near present-day Rosh Ha'ayin, the earliest evidence -- dating to around 300,000 years ago -- of unequivocal repeated fire building over a continuous period. These findings help answer the question and hint that those prehistoric humans already had a highly advanced social structure and intellectual capacity.
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The Darwin Fish Climbed Onto Land, Left Us With Great Hearing
This article originally appeared on The Conversation. A century-old mystery about how ancient freshwater fishes breathe has finally been put to rest, thanks to a study published last week in Nature Communications by a team of ichthyologists and me. The fishes in question—Polypterus and related species—have tiny holes in the...
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Discovery Brings Bendable Cell Phone, Foldable Flat-Screen TV Closer to Reality
University of Houston researchers have developed a new stretchable and transparent electrical conductor, bringing the potential for a fully foldable cell phone or a flat-screen television that can be folded and carried under your arm closer to reality.
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New Type of Star Emerges From Inside Black Holes
Born inside black holes, “Planck stars” could explain one of astrophysics’ biggest mysteries and may already have been o…
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Diamond Defect Boosts Quantum Technology
New research shows that a remarkable defect in synthetic diamond produced by chemical vapor deposition allows researchers to measure, witness, and potentially manipulate electrons in a manner that could lead to new “quantum technology” for information processing.
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A Scientific Explanation of How Marijuana Causes the Munchies
THC appears to increase our sensitivity to scents and flavors by using naturally occurring neural networks to convince the brain that it's starving...
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