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James Webb telescope pinpoints the most distant ‘fast radio burst’ ever seen, more than 10 billion light-years away

Astronomers have detected the most distant burst of radio signals ever seen: an explosion that's emitting waves of energy from more than 10 billion light-years away.The event, named FRB...
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THE GEARBOX: The Revolutionary Power Expander That Helped Move Mankind Forward

By Gracus Bloom | Industrial Technology News There is a wonderfully misleading phrase sometimes used to describe a gearbox:...
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Animals may have evolved 200 million years earlier than previously thought, new study suggests

The first animals may have appeared on Earth hundreds of millions years earlier than their fossils suggest, a...
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Star Metal: When Ancient People Worked Metal From the Stars

By Gracus Bloom | Historical Science & Archaeology Long before modern metallurgy gave humanity steel mills, electric furnaces and...
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To Blend or Not to Blend? Four Vegetables Worth Eating Whole

Health News | Nutrition, food preparation and what really happens inside your blender The blender debate: Are we missing...

Anglo-Saxon children discovered buried with warrior gear in UK — perhaps as a nod to ‘the men these children might have become’

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Four early Anglo-Saxon swords uncovered during a recent archaeological excavation I took part in each tell a story about how weapons were viewed at...

Genetically unique group in southern Greece can trace their paternal ancestry to the Bronze Age

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A group of people living in the far southern reaches of Greece's Peloponnesian Peninsula have been genetically isolated for over a millennium and can...

‘It’s similar to how Google can map your home without your consent’: Why using aerial lasers to map an archaeology site should have Indigenous...

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Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, unleashing millions of laser pulses into a dense tropical forest. The...

Halley wasn’t the first to figure out the famous comet. An 11th-century monk did it first, new research suggests.

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Halley's comet bears the name of the astronomer who famously first described its movements through space, but he wasn't the first to discover its...

1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb discovered in Mexico features enormous owl sculpture symbolizing death

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Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered a 1,400-year-old tomb from the Zapotec culture that features well-preserved details, including a sculpture of a wide-eyed owl with...

People, not glaciers, transported rocks to Stonehenge, study confirms

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Humans — not glaciers — transported Stonehenge's megaliths across Great Britain to their current location in southern England, a new study confirms.Scientists have believed...
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