NASA’s Juno Spacecraft to Make Close Approach to Jupiter’s Icy Moon Europa
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Scientists are increasingly curious whether life developed elsewhere in the solar system. There are a couple of interesting places where…
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63 Years Ago Today, the First Human-Made Object Crashed on the Moon
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On September 14, 63 years ago, the Soviet Union’s Luna 2 probe, launched two days earlier from Baikonur Cosmodrome, became…
Scientists Set World Record For The Most Powerful Stable Magnetic Field
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During a steady high magnetic field experiment at the Steady High Magnetic Field Facility (SHMFF) in Hefei, China, a hybrid…
Study Reveals Glaciers Flowed on Ancient Mars
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Since Mars lacks glacial valleys, scientists believed that ancient ice masses on the Red Planet must have remained frozen to…
The Small Magellanic Cloud Reveals a Secret
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In an environment similar to the early universe, Osaka Metropolitan University researchers discovered “baby stars” in the Small Magellanic Cloud….
Finding Crashed Interstellar Objects Throughout the Solar System
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Astrophysicists at Yale University studied how interstellar objects can create impact craters and whether these are easily identifiable. The discovery…
Archaeologists Find Ancient Olmec Reliefs Dating Back 2500 Years
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Archaeologists have discovered ancient Olmec heads, believed to date back some 2,500 years. The artifacts are thought to be representations…
Ancient Macedonia: Top-10 Crazy Facts about Macedonian History
Introduction The history of Ancient Macedonia is a fascinating topic that, even today, is still not well understood by many…
Mysterious “Dormant” Black Hole Discovered in Deep Space
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The Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring galaxy to the Milky Way, is home to a dormant stellar-mass black hole, according…
Worst Year in History: Top-10 Most Atrocious Periods to Be Alive
After the COVID-19 pandemic and the global market crisis, 2020 has been amongst the most potent candidates for the title…
Politics: Top-10 Most Pivotal Political Quotes in History
One thing that’s very common for this type of article is to try and understand the political theorist and person…
Archaeological Discoveries Unveil Sphinx Statues, Mummies and More in Egypt
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Dozens of mummies were discovered in the ancient Egyptian city of Aswan In 2017, archaeologists from Egypt and Italy launched…
400,000-Year-Old Elephant Bone Tools Discovered
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Archaeologists examined artifacts from the Castel di Guido site, located near Rome, and discovered the largest collection of elephant bone…
13,000-Year-Old Find Rewrites History of Human Migration in America
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American archaeologists have discovered the oldest site of hunter-gatherers who inhabited the area of the Great Lakes about 13,000 years…
Researchers Recover Objects from Egypt’s Sunken “Atlantis” Heracleion
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Underwater archaeologists have discovered wicker baskets containing oil palm fruits and grape seeds at the site of the sunken ancient Egyptian port of Heracleion. Apparently, these items were used as grave goods, which allowed them to survive to this day from the 4th century BC.
60,000-Year-Old Cave Art in Spain was Made by Neanderthals
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Scientists have discovered in the Spanish cave of Ardales drawings left by Neanderthals between 45 and 65 thousand years ago. Chemical analysis showed that the cave art in Spain was of man-made origin, and archaic people brought ocher from outside the monument. Apparently, karst formations played a symbolic role among some groups of Neanderthals.
Most Detailed Radio Image of Andromeda Galaxy Reveals Stunning Features
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Astronomers using the SRT ground-based radio telescope have built the most detailed radio map of the Andromeda Galaxy. It made it possible to better study the structure of the galaxy and its properties, as well as to compile a catalog of background sources.
Can Black Holes Lose Their Magnetic Fields?
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Using computer simulations, American physicists have shown that due to magnetic reconnection, the Kerr black hole, surrounded by a highly…
King Tut’s Mask May Not Have Been His
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British professor-egyptologists Joanne Fletcher has put forward a brand new hypothesis about the origin of the famous golden mask of Tutankhamun. She included the theory in her new book “Valley of the Kings: The Golden Age of Egypt”. Despite a number of well-founded arguments, Egyptian scientists were quick to refute the bold assumption.
Researchers Find Earliest Fossil Record of Animal Life on Earth
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Elizabeth Turner, a Canadian geologist at the University of Laurentia, released a study describing the earliest fossil record on Earth, dating back 890 million years. The discovery could make a real sensation, as it shifts the history of the emergence of animals on Earth by about 350 million years.
Astronomers Spot Light Behind Supermassive Black Hole
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For the first time in the history of observations, astronomers have recorded X-rays reflected from the far side of the…
Researchers See Tidal Disruption of Star by Supermassive Black Hole
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The Spektr-RG Space Observatory has helped astronomers see the early stages of the tidal disruption of a star by a…