Excavations of the 6th-century BCE temple, now in their fifth year at the Kleidi-Samikon archaeological site in western…
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“If it’s not coral, then what is it?” NASA scientists wondered. The peculiar object turned out to be a small, light-colored, weathered stone. It was discovered inside Gale Crater on…
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Science & Technology
A Planet Is Falling Apart: It Sheds Mount-Everest–Sized Chunks and Trails a 9-Million-km Tail
Astronomers at NASA and MIT have found an exoplanet so close to its star that its surface has turned to magma and is evaporating into space. NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey…
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A team from the University of Miami, led by marine biologist Benjamin Minch and virologist Mohammad Moniruzzaman, used specialized software to identify microbial genomes in seawater samples. During their research,…
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In 2022, during a survey of the Liliʻuokalani Ridge in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (PMNM), which stretches north of the Hawaiian Islands, the research vessel Nautilus made an unexpected…
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A team from the Geological, Mining, and Metallurgical Institute of Peru and La Unión College unearthed a nearly complete skeleton of a gavial crocodile in the Ocucaje Desert. The Ocucaje…
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A Chinese-Australian team of paleontologists discovered 12 two-toed footprints in Fujian Province in southeastern China. The prints fell into two morphological groups based on size and shape. The smaller prints…
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Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in the Solar System, named 2017 OF201. Researchers tracked its movement for seven years using powerful ground-based telescopes located in…
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Perseverance rover came across a strange rock on Mars made up of hundreds of tiny spheres that resemble spider eggs. Scientists don’t know where it came from, but they hope…
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Science & Technology
LiDAR Maps Thousands of Ancient Structures—and a Lost City—Hidden Under the Amazon
There are few places left on Earth where nature remains untouched. One of them is the Amazon. In its vast territory of 6.7 million square kilometers, every patch of soil,…
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Small glass beads were found by researchers in soil samples delivered to Earth in 2020 by the Chinese Chang’e 5 spacecraft. The results of the study were only just revealed:…
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What’s surprising is that the city, found on the banks of the Nile, was hidden in a heavily visited tourist and archaeological area. Egyptian archaeologists made the rare discovery not…
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Researchers from institutions in the U.S., Guatemala, and France have discovered hundreds of hidden archaeological sites in northern Guatemala’s Mirador-Calakmul karst basin. They date the settlements to between 1000 BC…
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A long tunnel uncovered on Egypt’s northern coast may point to the lost tomb of the legendary queen. A team of archaeologists from the University of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)…
