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Snakes' mind-bending 'heat vision' inspires scientists to build a 4K imaging system that could one day fit into your smartphone

The human eye can only detect wavelengths in the visible light range, but a new imaging system will let us "see" infrared radiation using smartphones.

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Pompeii victims were wearing woolen cloaks in August when they died — but experts are split on what that means

Some of the victims at Pompeii were wearing woolen cloaks when they died, even though it was August, new research finds.

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Diagnostic dilemma: An otherwise 'fit' man had a stroke after drinking 8 'high-potency' energy drinks a day

A man with few risk factors unexpectedly experienced a stroke, and his daily energy drink habit may have been to blame.

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Ancient burrowing bees made their nests in the tooth cavities and vertebrae of dead rodents, scientists discover

Scientists made a unique discovery in a cave on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola: dozens of fossilized bee nests inside rodent bones that were deposited by owls thousands of years ago.

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Heart attacks are less harmful at night. And that might be key to treating them.

Controlling immune cells' internal clocks helped reduce inflammatory damage in conditions like heart attack and sickle cell disease, a mouse study found.

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'We were amazed': Scientists using James Webb telescope may have discovered the earliest supernova in the known universe

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a massive star just 730 million years after the Big Bang.

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Brain scans reveal 'dial' that helps keep us from getting lost

A brain-scan study reveals key components of the brain's navigation system, which may help us better understand early symptoms of dementia.

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Ancient Egyptian valley temple excavated — and it's connected to a massive upper temple dedicated to the sun god, Ra

The newly excavated 4,500-year-old valley temple from ancient Egypt holds a "public calendar" and a roof for astronomical observation.

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Polar bears in southern Greenland are 'using jumping genes to rapidly rewrite their own DNA' to survive melting sea ice

Warming temperatures appear to be driving genetic mutations in some polar bears to help them survive the shifting climatic conditions.

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City-size 'cosmic butterfly' carved into Mars' surface contains traces of ancient water

The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure sports a pair of smooth, rocky wings, which were likely "fluidized" by buried Martian ice.

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Record-breaking feat means information lasts 15 times longer in new kind of quantum processor than those used by Google and IBM

The novel design for the new qubit uses the chemical element tantalum in tandem with a special silicon substrate, creating what researchers say are the most coherent superconducting qubits to date.

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Deep snow blanket transforms Yellowstone Lake into a giant white void — Earth from space

A 2022 astronaut photo shows a thick blanket of snow covering Yellowstone Lake, transforming the frozen body of water into a featureless white void. But below the ice lie some of Earth's hottest hydrothermal vents.

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30 models of the universe proved wrong by final data from groundbreaking cosmology telescope

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile has released its final batch of data after 15 years — and it proves that the Hubble tension, a rift in our understanding of the universe, is very real.

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5,000-year-old dog skeleton and dagger buried together in Swedish bog hint at mysterious Stone Age ritual

Five millennia ago, ancient fishers buried a dog alongside a dagger in a lake bed. Archaeologists are trying to figure out why.

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Fingerprint of ancient seaborne raider found on Scandinavia's oldest plank boat

An ancient fingerprint and several chemical clues from a 2,400-year-old sea raiders' boat are revealing secrets about where some mysterious attackers came from during the Iron Age.

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5 genetic 'signatures' underpin a range of psychiatric conditions

A study suggests psychiatric disorders can share the same genetic signatures and that they may stem from shared biological mechanisms.

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Magdala stone: 2,000-year-old carving from Jerusalem is world's oldest known depiction of a menorah

A pilgrim who visited the Second Temple in Jerusalem may have carved their memories into a limestone block for another synagogue.

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The UN's International Asteroid Warning Network is closely watching comet 3I/ATLAS. Here's why.

Tracking comets accurately is hard. A new effort with the U.N. and NASA aims to better chart these visitors using 3I/ATLAS.

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'This has re-written our understanding of Roman concrete manufacture': Abandoned Pompeii worksite reveal how self-healing concrete was made

The discovery of a 2,000-year-old building site in Pompeii reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing concrete.

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Scientists finally sequence the vampire squid's huge genome, revealing secrets of the 'living fossil'

The genetic link between squids and octopuses may just be found in the vampire squid genome.

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Strange, 7-hour explosion from deep space is unlike anything scientists have seen — Space photo of the week

Astronomers used major telescopes across the world to probe a cosmic explosion 8 billion light-years from the solar system.

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Can a turtle tuck its head all the way inside its shell?

Turtle shells evolved over the course of 300 million years, but self-defense wasn't the initial driver, researchers think.

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Science history: Norwegian explorer wins the treacherous race to the South Pole, while British rival perishes along with his crew — Dec. 14, 1911

In December 1911, Roald Amundsen and his crew reached the South Pole, beating his rival, Robert Falcon Scott, by 35 days. Scott and his crew didn't survive the return trip.

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2,000-year-old shipwreck may be Egyptian 'pleasure barge' from last dynasty of pharaohs

Archaeologists diving off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, have discovered the remains of a 2,000-year-old "pleasure barge" from the time of the Ptolemaic period.

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Brutal lion attack 6,200 years ago severely injured teenager — but somehow he survived, skeleton found in Bulgaria reveals

Extremely rare evidence of a lion attack on a teenage boy's remains suggests the teenager survived the initial trauma but became severely disabled, requiring support from his community.

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