Astronomers make rare exoplanet discovery, and a giant leap in detecting Earth-like bodies
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Commentary - on archaeology and small mundane discoveries
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Scandinavia's oldest known ship burial is located in mid-Norway – Merovingian period discovery pushes back tradition of ship burials
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What am I thankful for this year? Amazing scientific discoveries.
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Elusive egg-laying mammal named after Sir David Attenborough caught on camera for the first time
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Another gold treasure discovery in Norway – thirty-five 1400 year old gold foil figures found in a pagan temple near Hov
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Jewel of the forest: New electric blue tarantula species discovered in Thailand
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James Webb telescope makes 'JuMBO' discovery of planet-like objects in Orion
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Norwegian family finds Viking-era relics while searching for a lost gold earring in their garden
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As the earth warms, glacial archaeologists in Norway are in a race against time to preserve objects before they are destroyed by the elements
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Planet K2-18 b has an ocean and atmosphere that could support life
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Archaeologists reveal largest palaeolithic cave art site in Eastern Iberia
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How to see a newly-discovered green comet this week, before it vanishes for 400 years
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Vast bubble of galaxies discovered, given Hawaiian name "Hoʻoleilana"
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Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found
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Metal detectorist makes Norway's ‘gold find of century’ – cache comprised nine gold medallions and gold pearls that once formed an opulent necklace, as well as three gold rings
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Archeologists in Norway found an arrow that was likely trapped in ice for 4,000 years
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As a young industrial designer, Patricia Moore undertook a radical experiment in aging. Her discoveries reshaped the built world.
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Archaeologists in Turkey have identified massive structures below a Roman-era castle
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Live roundworm found in Australian woman's brain in world-first discovery
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Wobbling muon experiment could reveal a fifth force of nature — if the results hold up
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Scientists discover new ecosystem underneath hydrothermal vents
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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 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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Webb 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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