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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Discoveries at the edge of the Periodic Table: First ever measurements of Einsteinium
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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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Sea 'boiling' with methane discovered in Siberia: 'No one has ever recorded anything like this before'
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Recently discovered neutron star is almost too massive to exist
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Astronomers detect the most massive neutron star yet
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Archaeologists have confirmed a father-son duo discovered an Iron Age dwelling using metal detectors in Sievi, Finland
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Thirteen years ago, a Montana rancher found two skeletons in combat – the Dueling Dinosaurs. But who do they belong to, and will the public ever see them?
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Pair of supermassive black holes discovered on a collision course
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Swedish authorities have announced the first Viking boat grave discoveries in the country in more than fifty years
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Scientists have identified more than fifty new lakes of liquid water lying under the Greenland ice sheet
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New species of ancient human discovered in Philippines cave
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The general was female? ASU professor, colleague uncover 200-year-old mystery from the American Revolution
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Newly uncovered Georgia O'Keeffe letters shed light on her greatest paintings
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Astronomers discover eighty-three supermassive black holes in the early universe
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Maya ritual cave ‘untouched’ for 1,000 years stuns archaeologists
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First confirmed Denisovan skull piece found
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Scientists find a brain circuit that could explain seasonal depression
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Weewarrasauras: Lightning Ridge discovery the first dinosaur to be named in NSW in almost a century
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Astronomers have found a star that may produce the next gamma-ray burst in the Milky Way
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Fossilised fat confirms this Ediacaran fossil is Earth's oldest known animal
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Scientists discover giant deep-sea coral reef off Atlantic coast
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What makes a human brain unique? A newly discovered neuron may be a clue
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Mars may have underground liquid water
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Drone reveals massive Stonehenge-like circular monument in Ireland
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Some of the universe’s first stars have actually been seen
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