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Scientists Claim AI Breakthrough to Generate Boundless Clean Fusion Energy

Princeton researchers report that a new AI model has solved one of the major roadblocks to generating fusion energy.

21.02.2024 5

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Mirjam Guesgen

Archaeologists Discovered a Massive Ancient 'Megastructure' Submerged Beneath the Sea

The wall, likely used as a tool for hunting reindeer, is the oldest identified by researchers in the region so far.

14.02.2024 10

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'Bad News' for Humanity: A Critical Climate System Could Collapse Sooner Than We Thought

The collapse of the AMOC climate system would have devastating and widespread effects, and it could happen much sooner than anyone anticipated.

12.02.2024 8

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Scientists Have Made a Record-Setting Fusion Energy Breakthrough

“Beyond setting a new record, we achieved things we’ve never done before and deepened our understanding of fusion physics,” said one scientist.

09.02.2024 10

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A Prehistoric Tool Discovery May Have Just Rewritten Human History

New research suggests a sudden "revolution" in human history that allowed our species to thrive and spread was a longer and more complex process.

08.02.2024 4

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NASA’s Mars Exploration Lab Lays Off 570 Workers Because Congress Can’t Get It Together

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory put robots on Mars, but Congressional foot-dragging is forcing the space agency to lay off hundreds of workers.

07.02.2024 8

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Scientists Are Now Close to Finding a Mysterious Planet That Explains Strange Cosmic Phenomena, Study Reports

Researchers have excluded 78% of the search field for the hypothetical Planet 9; astronomer Michael Brown says it may now be found within a few years.

06.02.2024 6

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3 Students Reveal Secrets of 2000-Year-Old Scroll In Breakthrough Discovery

A PhD student, a robotics student, and a 21-year-old CompSci student used AI to reveal text on an ancient scroll badly damaged by the eruption of...

05.02.2024 7

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A Discovery Near the Dawn of the Time Has Revealed Something Fundamental About the Universe

Scientists report the first "strong direct evidence" for a fundamental cosmic phenomenon in a region of space near the beginning of the universe.

02.02.2024 4

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Scientists Discovered Strange 'Entities' Called 'Obelisks' In Our Bodies. Their Purpose Is a Mystery.

Scientists discovered "obelisks" described as a new biological "entity" in the human body. "It's insane," one researcher told Science Magazine.

31.01.2024 7

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Scientists Discover Stunning Evidence of Multiple Lost Prehistoric Societies

Researchers analyzed more than 100 pieces of prehistoric jewelry and found that the ancient past was more complex than we imagined.

30.01.2024 5

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Strange Reflective ‘Anomalies’ on the Moon Are a Mystery, Scientists Say

“Current knowledge of the moon’s magnetic properties is very limited,” said one scientist, but the discovery of dust-covered rocks with...

29.01.2024 7

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New Discovery 'Keeps Hope Alive' to Find Signs of Life on Mars, Scientists Say

NASA scans of Mars' Jezero Crater confirm lake sediment layers that could contain evidence of ancient microbial life on the red planet.

26.01.2024 4

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What We Think About How Ancient Humans Ate Is All Wrong, Study Suggests

Ancient peoples living in the Andes didn’t follow a now-trendy ‘paleo diet’ and largely ate a reserved diet of mostly vegetables.

25.01.2024 10

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Archaeologists Keep Finding Strange Ancient Objects With a Mysterious Purpose

Amateur archaeologists unearthed the latest example of a mysterious Roman "dodecahedron," objects which have baffled historians for centuries.

22.01.2024 10

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Inspiring: Cute Tiny Critters Eat Males That Die After Marathon Orgies, Scientists Discover

The adorable antechinus is known for its wild sex frenzies that push males to the point of death, and now scientists have observed survivors feasting...

19.01.2024 8

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Scientists Discovered an 'Ultra-Large Structure' in Space That Shouldn't Exist

The Big Ring, located 9 billion light years from Earth, is so huge that it challenges our current understanding of the universe.

18.01.2024 4

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Astronomers Discover Oldest Black Hole Ever Observed, and It's Feasting

An exceptionally old and luminous black hole is challenging what astronomers understand about their birth and evolution.

17.01.2024 6

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Archaeologists Have Discovered Massive Lost Cities In the Amazon Jungle

Researchers report the discovery of 15 sites in the Amazon containing 6,000 structures, ancient roads, ceremonial complexes and more.

12.01.2024 3

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Psychedelic Mushrooms Existed Millions of Years Before Humans, Largest-Ever Study Reveals

The largest genomic study of "magic" mushrooms reveals they evolved 65 million years ago and deepens our understanding of their psychedelic compounds.

11.01.2024 5

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Elephant-Sized Apes That Once Roamed the Land Mysteriously Vanished. Now, Scientists Have an Answer.

The sudden extinction of giant apes is an "enigma in paleontology," one scientist said, but new research proposes an answer to why they disappeared.

10.01.2024 10

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Archaeologists Keep Finding Evidence of a Mysterious Ancient Cult In Europe

The discovery of a gilded belt buckle depicting a snake eating a frog was thought to be unique. However, similar evidence is popping up across Europe.

08.01.2024 6

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Scientists Just Made a 1.75 Billion-Year-Old Discovery About the Origin of Life

Newly-discovered 1.75 billion-year-old bacteria fossils shed new light on the Great Oxygenation Event, which led to the emergence of complex life.

04.01.2024 6

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Mysterious Section of the Great Wall of China Isn't What We Thought, Study Reveals

The Mongolian Arc, an under-studied section of the Great Wall in modern-day Mongolia, wasn't a defensive structure. Its true nature remains enigmatic.

03.01.2024 6

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Scientists Explain Why 'Doing Your Own Research' Leads to Believing Conspiracies

Researchers found that people searching misinformation online risk falling into "data voids" that increase belief in conspiracies.

21.12.2023 5

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Scientists Have Solved the Mystery of a Strange 'Signal' from Earth's Core, Study Reports

Scientists in China report they've confirmed a link between an 8.5-year signal and a "wobble" in Earth's core that challenges earlier knowledge.

19.12.2023 6

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Ancient Inscribed Bricks Contain Evidence of Mysterious Magnetic 'Anomaly,' Scientists Find

Scientists analyzing ancient Mesopotamian bricks have discovered traces of the Levantine Iron Age geomagnetic anomaly that shed light on its strength.

18.12.2023 3

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A Monumental Prehistoric Discovery In Siberia Rewrites Human History, Scientists Say

Researchers report dating of the world's oldest known fort in Siberia to 8,000 years ago, shifting conceptions of what foraging societies were like.

15.12.2023 5

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'Nanoplastics' Could Be Worse Than Microplastics and We Know Almost Nothing About Them

“From the public point of view, this could be the next asbestos."

06.12.2023 4

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Physicists Challenge 'Fundamental Nature of Gravity' With Wild New Theory

A new theory claims to solve one of the biggest problems in modern physics, but not everyone is convinced.

05.12.2023 4

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Physicists Propose Way to Harvest Incredible Energy From Black Holes In Wild Paper

Primordial black holes can theoretically be turned into powerful and rechargeable "batteries," a new paper says. But it has some supermassive caveats.

01.12.2023 1

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A Ray From Space Hit Earth with Such Incredible Power That Scientists Named It After a God

The source of the Amaterasu particle, named after the Japanese sun goddess, is a "big mystery."

28.11.2023 3

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