Ancient skull found in China is unlike any human seen before
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Researchers have decoded more than half of the characters in the so-called Kushan script by comparing them with inscriptions in a known ancient language called Bactrian
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Two-faced star seems to have one hydrogen side and one helium side
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Ocomtún: A long-lost Maya city that was just discovered
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How I discovered the Hummingbird Nebula
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Seven amazing accomplishments the James Webb Space Telescope achieved in its first year
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Scientists discover second deep-sea octopus nursery off of Costa Rica
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After fifteen years, pulsar timing yields evidence of cosmic gravitational wave background
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Scientists have found signs of a new kind of gravitational wave. It's really big.
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Planet that shouldn't exist found
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When did humans start settling down? In Israel, new discoveries at one of the world’s oldest villages are upending the debate about when we stopped wandering.
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Medieval gaming piece in soapstone with runic inscription discovered in Trondheim, Norway
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Hoard of 1,000-year-old Viking coins unearthed in Denmark – artefacts believed to date back to 980s found by girl metal-detecting in cornfield last autumn
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Cosmic rays reveal 'hidden' thirty-foot-long corridor in Egypt's Great Pyramid
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James Webb Space Telescope telescope spots super old, massive galaxies that shouldn’t exist
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First report of rare cat discovered on Mt. Everest
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World's oldest runestone found in Norway – 2,000-year-old inscription is among the earliest examples of words recorded in writing
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The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early galaxies
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Archaeologists with the Nordjyske Museer in Denmark have found the remains of a large, thousand-year-old homestead, which they believe may have been a Viking hall
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Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like two million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland
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Scientists have discovered a new set of blood groups. The ‘Er’ grouping could help doctors identify and treat some rare cases of blood incompatibility, including between pregnant mothers and fetuses.
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Viking-era sword hilt found near grave of 'Gausel Queen' by amateur detectives – only twenty similar swords of this type have been found in Norway
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'She's perfect and she's beautiful': Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields
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Scientists discover a new method to break down plastics in less time
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The dolphin clitoris is full of surprises, scientists discover
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Scientists just found a 'significant' volume of water inside Mars' grand canyon
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Pompeii still has buried secrets - The first major excavations in decades shed light on how ordinary citizens shopped and snacked—and where slaves slept
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A new species of dinosaur with an unusually large nose has been identified by a retired GP who spent lockdown rummaging through boxes of hundreds of old bones
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At 4/3rds the mass of the sun and 4300 kilometers across, astronomers discover the most massive and smallest White Dwarf yet
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Nearly 500 Mesoamerican monuments revealed by laser mapping—many for the first time
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Netta Engelhardt discovered an escape from Hawking’s black hole paradox
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A Swedish orienteering enthusiast working on a map earlier in April stumbled across a stash of some fifty Bronze Age relics dating back over 2,500 years
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How we discovered a hidden world of fungi inside the world’s biggest seed bank
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Scientists discover massive 'pipeline' in the cosmic web connecting the universe
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Ancient Egyptian brewery is the oldest ever found
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Discoveries at the edge of the Periodic Table: First ever measurements of Einsteinium
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Physicists have observed an entirely new state of matter called 'Liquid Glass'
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‘Milestone’ evidence for anyons, a third kingdom of particles
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Scientists discover the first animal that doesn’t breathe oxygen to live
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The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare.
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Neutrinos lead to unexpected discovery in basic math
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Scientists discover new human salivary glands
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Water on Mars: Discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientists
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Phosphine discovered in Venus' atmosphere, which could be evidence of microbial life
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Scientists detect first-of-its-kind "intermediate-mass" black hole as a result of most massive merger ever observed
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Canadian scuba diver in Mexico accidentally discovers vast, prehistoric industrial complex
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Africa’s biggest collection of ancient human footprints has been found
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Microbial life has been found deep in Earth's crust beneath the ocean floor
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Board-game piece from period of first Viking raid found on Lindisfarne – small glass crown thought to be rare archaeological link to raiders
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Thousand year old 12cm-long iron arrowhead was found high up in the mountains near Eidfjord in Norway
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