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Archaeologists Found an ‘Anomaly’ Near the Pyramids That May Reveal an Ancient Portal

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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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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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The CIA’s Secret Plan to Use Mind Control

By Kimberly Hickok

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Animals

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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

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A New Study Unveils ‘Twisters’ Inside Egg Cells

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What To Do When Your Pet Octopus Has 50 Hatchlings

Archaeology

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Ancient Roman ‘Service Station’ Discovered in UK

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Ancient Chinese Tomb Shows Family-Style Design

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Humans’ First North American Footsteps Tracked

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Ancient Human Lava Tube Habitation Discovered

Earth

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Ancient Collision May Have Created Plate Tectonics

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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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This 'Cage of Cages' Stores CO2 Faster Than Trees

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

superconductivity

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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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

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This Giant Sand Battery Could Revolutionize Energy

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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Quantum Entanglement May Be Reversible

By Caroline Delbert

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Scientists See Weird Effects By Squishing Atoms

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Did Physicists Find the Ever-Elusive Glueball?

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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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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

mummy museum, guanajuato, mexico

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

dark matter

CERN Approves Project for Finding Hidden Particles

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5 Hydrothermal Vents Have Appeared in the Ocean

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Archeologists Unearth a 12-Sided Roman Mystery

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Lost Villa of Rome’s Augustus Potentially Found

old skull and crossbones on an abandoned grave in brussels

‘Zombie’ Grave Discovered

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Earth’s Magnetic Field Is 3.7 Billion Years Old

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The Place Where Time Moves 9% Slower for Humans

By Caroline Delbert

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Dentists Discovers Ancient Jawbone in Tile Floor

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Experts Find Missing Piece of Ramesses II Statue

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Ancient Monuments May Be Pathways for the Dead

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Scientists Are Finally About to Weigh a Neutrino.

By Caroline Delbert

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Two Methods to Contain Nuclear Plasma

By Caroline Delbert