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Body found at bottom of Scottish well may be from rare ritual burial performed centuries ago

An Iron Age grave has been discovered in the Scottish Highlands. The person was buried within what may have been a ritual well.

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Neanderthals may have trekked through the Saudi Arabian desert 55,000 years ago, farther south than experts thought possible

Stone tools from a lakeside site in Saudi Arabia hint that Neanderthals were adapted to the arid Arabian interior, not just to cold places.

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'Beyond human intuition': AI designs chip components 500 times smaller than what engineers could ever imagine

Three new AI-designed chip components are just a few micrometers long and go beyond what human engineers have previously envisaged.

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The pace of climate change matters more than overall heat in the race to save key Atlantic currents, study finds

The rate of global warming, rather than the extra heat itself, could determine whether a system of ocean currents known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation will cross a tipping point, new research suggests.

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Archaeologists discover Etruscan well that was ritually opened with offerings for a goddess — and 'closed' with human bodies

An ancient Etruscan cult likely left burials and bronze artifacts in a well that was recently discovered in Italy.

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Giant underwater plume blasts into swirling cloud 'street' in the East China Sea — Earth from space

A recent satellite photo captured a series of clouds sculpted by von Kármán vortices from a volcano on South Korea's Jeju Island. A giant multicolor plume, ejected by China's Yangtze River, is also visible in the image.

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1,700-year-old church discovered under a lake in Turkey may be the location of the First Council of Nicaea — but other experts disagree

A small church discovered beneath a larger one may have hosted one of the most important meetings in the history of Christianity, but some scholars not involved with the excavation disagree.

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$Skeleton with 167 fractures discovered at Scottish castle may have been first victim of Edward I's 'War Wolf' trebuchet$

Skeleton with 167 fractures discovered at Scottish castle may have been first victim of Edward I's 'War Wolf' trebuchet

Dozens of fractures in a medieval skeleton found buried near a castle suggest the person may have been killed by a direct trebuchet hit.

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Fire-flame vessel: An exquisitely crafted 4,500-year-old pot from a mysterious culture in Japan

Archaeologists aren't sure why prehistoric people in Japan made these elaborate vessels decorated with flames.

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4 lemurs die of human herpesvirus, including one that had been used in a 'lemur yoga' class

Researchers recently confirmed cases of human herpesvirus infection in four lemurs, which died of the infection after having close contact with humans.

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'Full-on berserker mode': Archaeologists solve mystery of medieval soldiers with gruesome square holes in their skull

A new analysis of skulls from a 14th-century battle in Sweden reveals a spiked club inflicted the death blow.

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Rare belching disorder could be treated with singing, study hints — but not everyone is convinced

A strange-sounding treatment may offer relief for people with a little-understood type of excessive belching.

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'The lance head was still inside the pelvis': Mass grave found in Austria may hold casualties of unknown ancient Roman battle

A new analysis of skeletons recovered from an ancient mass burial has revealed a surprising number of groin injuries.

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Memory may not work how we thought, study of mice in artificial hibernation finds

A new study induced artificial hibernation in lab mice and may have revealed something fundamental about the nature of memory.

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Saving old trees may protect people's health more than planting new ones, study of Chicago neighborhoods finds

A study tracking tree cover in Chicago over 11 years found that neighborhoods losing canopy saw death rates climb, especially in the city's hottest areas.

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'They basically used these dried-up wells just to throw people in': 43 skeletons found in Roman-era well may be evidence of deadly plague

Archaeologists have analyzed dozens of skeletons from a mass burial in a well. The lack of injuries suggests the people may have died from a plague rather than a battle.

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New AI technique helps robots complete tasks twice as fast by letting them 'think ahead'

A new AI system lets robots plan their next move while they're in motion — removing reaction delays and doubling task speeds without any extra computing overhead.

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James Webb telescope just spotted the oldest, closest pair of black holes in the early universe

The dual black hole system, dubbed LID-1166, is the first close-separation pair of its kind confirmed this early in the universe. The discovery could help to explain how the earliest black holes grew so large, so fast.

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Foodborne illnesses: Is the US really being hit harder this year?

While parasitic Cyclospora infections have reached record-breaking numbers this year, experts have criticized coverage that has created the appearance of "one massive outbreak." The reality is more nuanced.

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Mars may have been losing its water more than 4 billion years ago, oldest-known Martian meteorite suggests

The oldest known rock from Mars was discovered on Earth in 2022. Scientists are beginning to reveal its mysteries.

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Mammal ancestors may have given live birth 90 million years earlier than we thought, rewriting evolutionary timelines

A distinctive growth ring in fossilized bones is revealing how an ancestral species in the mammalian family reproduced.

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Pigs wearing heated diving suits and diapers reveal a better way to beat 'the bends'

A new study submerged pigs in a high-pressure tank and uncovered a potential new way to beat "the bends."

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New 2D memory device stores data on just a single electron

Researchers build a new memory device following a single-electron storage breakthrough. It could make transferring data faster and more energy-efficient.

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Totality! See incredible photos ofthe Aug. 12 total solar eclipse from across Europe

From Baily's Beads, a bright-pink prominence to awe-struck eclipse-watchers from across the European continent, check out these stunning images from yesterday's total solar eclipse.

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Young wild octopuses may form a 'fight club' and slap territorial fish if they get too close

A new study shows that octopuses act differently around territorial fish species, displaying a unique body pattern.

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