⌛ Unique sarcophagus from Roman Pannonia
👉 Archaeologists in Budapest have discovered a 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus. The grave was completely sealed off from the outside world and therefore remained exceptionally w...
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🧪 Perucetus: the largest animal on earth, ever! 📖
👉 The Perucetus was an enormous prehistoric whale from Peru that lived about 40 million years ago and the largest animal ever on earth. Its extremely heavy bones made...
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🧪 Young scientist reaches world top with AI
👉 A young Dutchman – with roots in both Suriname and India – has obtained his PhD cum laude at TU Delft. He did so with research that combines chemistry, chemical science, ma...
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⌛ Even the ancient Egyptians made mistakes...
👉 Archaeologists have discovered that an Egyptian artist corrected their mistakes. For example, they used white paint to make a jackal on ancient papyrus a lot slimmer after...
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🧪 Unique: living bridges in India
👉 Some bridges are tourist attractions. Just think of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, or the Swan in Rotterdam (Netherlands). Of a completely different order are the "living r...
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🧪 Bonobos and chimpanzees just as aggressive
👉 Research shows that bonobos are not less aggressive – or more peace-loving – than chimpanzees. The difference mainly lies in who uses the aggression and against whom. In c...
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⌛ Chimpanzees also turn out to love crystals!
👉 Chimpanzees appear to have a strong interest in crystals. In experiments they clearly chose shiny stones over ordinary rocks and examined them more than attentively. Scien...
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🧪 Earth warming is accelerating faster than expected
👉 Scientists see that the warming of our planet has been accelerating since 2015. The originally used calculation models, on which much policy has been based, turned...
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⌛ Ancient seafaring to Greenland (and beyond)
👉 Archaeologists have discovered that Paleo-Inuit people were already traveling to remote Greenlandic islands 4,500 years ago. On the Kitsissut islands they found hundreds o (...)
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⌛ When radioactivity was still considered healthy...
👉 At the beginning of the twentieth century – around 1915 – many people believed radioactivity was super healthy. Radioactive products such as Radithor and Doramad to (...)
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🧪 Dangerous robot from 1897 comes to life! 🤖
👉 A film from 1897 featuring a life-threatening robot-like doll has been rediscovered and restored. The work of film pioneer Georges Méliès had been missing for more than a (...)
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🚀 More than ten years ago: rover sees Earth
👉 More than ten years ago, the rover Curiosity took a photo from Mars showing both Earth and the Moon. The image was taken after sunset with the Mastcam camera and is the fir (...)
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🧪 Your smartphone can have painful consequences...
👉 Original: a recent study examined the effect of smartphone use on the toilet. People who use their phone in that spot often stay seated longer, which can cause quite (...)
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🚀 Ouch, heading an asteroid works!
👉 A NASA space probe deliberately crashed into asteroid Dimorphos in 2022. Researchers recently discovered that this actually changed the orbit of the entire Didymos system around the (...)
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⌛ Blue, blue, I love... blue!
👉 Europe's oldest blue pigment has been discovered in Germany. The color, blue azurite, was found on a 13,000-year-old stone. This suggests that people already wanted to use colors selectiv (...)
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🧪 Single-celled ancestor turns out much more complex
👉 Scientists have discovered that our (single-celled) ancestor was far more complex than previously thought. Research into these so-called Asgard archaea shows that (...)
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🚀 Four stars in bizarrely small cosmic system
👉 Astronomers have discovered an extremely compact star system containing no fewer than four stars. Three stars orbit close to each other while a fourth star moves aroun (...)
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🧪 Three brain profiles behind one ADHD label
Researchers have discovered no fewer than three different brain profiles within ADHD. Each profile is linked to different symptoms and brain circuits. Th(...)
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🧪 New way to crush superbugs!
Scientists have discovered a method to take down resistant bacteria after all. They found that viruses block the bacterial protein MurJ. Without this protein, a bacterium cannot build a (...)
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⌛ The mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang 📖
Beneath a massive hill in China lies the even larger tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. Around that tomb, a gigantic terracotta army was discovered in 1974. The central tomb has still n (...)
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🚀 Inflatable heat shield must save Mars missions
NASA and ESA have been testing inflatable heat shields for future space missions to places like Mars (and beyond) for quite some time. These systems increase drag and (...)
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⌛ Arrr, matey! Lost treasure finally found! 🦜
Archaeologists believe they have found a famous pirate ship from 1721 off the coast of Madagascar. The ship was carrying an enormous treasure and was attacked by pirates. (...)
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⌛ Hip: the fashion scene of 7,000 years ago!
In Sweden, traces of Stone Age clothing have been found in ancient graves. Researchers discovered microscopic remains of feathers, fur, and fibers using a water-based metho (...)
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⌛ Is this the proof that Moses existed?
Old inscriptions have been reexamined in an Egyptian mine. Researcher Michael S. Bar-Ron believes he has read the name Moses in them. Some scientists are skeptical and consider (...)
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🧪 New: extra powerful infrared light!
Researchers in Chicago have developed a much more efficient and powerful way to produce infrared light using quantum dots. By using a gold-colored bowtie structure, they amplify (...)
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🚀 NASA presents 'nightmare report' Starliner
In 2024, two NASA astronauts ended up stuck on the ISS for nine months. Even though their mission was only supposed to last eight days. NASA now labels the failed test fli (...)
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🧪 Handy: fish recognizes itself in the mirror!
Cleaner wrasses appear to recognize themselves in a mirror. As part of a test, they repeatedly removed a mark on their body that was only visible in their reflection. Re (...)
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🧪 Electric cars: the race to 1000 kilometers
A new Chinese solid-state battery promises a driving range for electric cars of up to 1,250 kilometers. The technology is said to be safer and can charge much faster than (...)
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🚀 NASA shoots poop bacteria into space 💩
Scientists have sent a virus and a bacterium to the ISS to study their interaction there. In microgravity, the infection progressed more slowly and very different mutations e (...)
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⌛ Footprints from Roman era secured
After several heavy storms, 2,000-year-old footprints were recently discovered in Scotland. Local residents quickly called in archaeologists. Under difficult circumstances, a team d (...)
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