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…
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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.
Navy Pilot Reveals New Details About Tic Tac UFO
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Jeremy Corbell, the well-known UFO enthusiast and filmmaker, has published his long-anticipated interview with Commander Chad Underwood, the man who…
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.
NASA’s New Spacecraft Will Carry Message to Aliens
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NASA’s new interplanetary Lucy mission, scheduled for launch into space in October 2021, will carry a “time-capsule” with famous quotes from prominent members of society or history. Since the station will continue to orbit Earth for hundreds of thousands of years, perhaps it will one day be found by our distant descendants or perhaps even aliens.
3D Shark Intestine Scan Reveals Unexpected Similarities to Nikola Tesla Invention
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In the United States, a team made up of scientists from several universities conducted the first detailed analysis of shark intestines. The resulting 3D images amazed the researchers – they show that the shark’s intestines function exactly like the one-way valve invented by Nikola Tesla.
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…
Mexican Archaeologists Forced to Bury Unexpected Underground Find
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In Mexico, archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) will be forced to take a non-trivial step…
10 Things You Need To Know About The Briefest Supernova Gamma-Ray Burst
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Astronomers have recorded the shortest gamma-ray burst ever produced by the collapse of a massive star. The discovery may question the generally accepted classification of gamma-ray bursts based on their duration.
NASA’s InSight Lander Cracks Secret of Mars’ Inner Structure
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Planetary scientists working with the seismograph SEIS of the Martian automatic station InSight have published new results of the analysis…
Melting Tibetan Glaciers Unleash 15,000-Year Old Viruses
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Scientists analyzed old ice samples from the Tibetan plateau and found in them the genomic sequences of more than 30 ancient viruses, most of which were not previously known to science. The viruses from the Guliya ice cap have been given an approximate point of origin – around 15,000 years ago.
Previously Unknown Human Population Found
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Paleogeneticists analyzed sediment samples from the Georgian cave of Satsurbia and found ancient DNA fragments of a wolf, a bison, as well as a person who lived about 25 thousand years ago. The woman whose DNA was studied belonged to a completely unknown human population.
Amateur Astronomer Finds New Moon Orbiting Jupiter
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In addition to the four large Galilean moons, Jupiter has many smaller moons, up to a kilometer in size. Today, 79 of them are known, but there is no doubt that the giant planet has other small satellites that we have not yet noticed. One such was recently discovered by amateur astronomer Kai Ly, bringing the total to exactly eighty.
Mars Methane Mystery Deepens
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The Russian-European probe “ExoMars-TGO” did not detect even minimal traces of methane and two other hydrocarbons emitted by representatives of terrestrial life in the atmosphere of Mars.
10 Things You Should Know About the Latest Methane Anomaly Spotted By Curiosity on Mars
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An interdisciplinary team of scientists analyzed data from the Curiosity rover and identified the location of an unknown source of methane emissions, particles of which were previously recorded in the atmosphere of the Red Planet and intrigued the researchers.
Scientists Successfully Repair Hubble
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NASA specialists have successfully transferred the Hubble Telescope to backup units responsible for the operation of scientific instruments. The source of the telescope’s failure was the electric power regulator in the power supply.