Science
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While Building a House, They Dug Up a Chamber for Ancient Gods
When the builders started digging the foundation of a house in 2017 in Başbük, a village in Turkey about 70…
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Has the Milky Way’s Black Hole Come to Light?
What’s going on with our galaxy? Astronomers have long suspected that 26,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, lurking behind…
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Deadly Venom From Spiders and Snakes May Also Cure What Ails You
TUCSON, Ariz. — In a small room in a building at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, the invertebrate keeper, Emma Califf,…
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Hydroponic Lettuce Was Seen as Safe From Salmonella, Until an Outbreak
Countless saladlovers have embraced hydroponic produce, confident that baby lettuce, arugula and herbs raised indoors in greenhouses are safer ...
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An Anaconda’s Play Date With Dolphins Took a Strange Turn
In August 2021, a research team was documenting biodiversity near the Tijamuchi River in Bolivia when they saw some animals…
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Watch a Helicopter Try to Catch a Rocket Booster Falling From Space
Catch a falling rocket and bring it back to shore … On Tuesday (it will still be Monday evening in…
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You Hear the Musical Saw. These Mathematicians Heard Geometry.
Early in the 19th century, an unknown musician somewhere in the Appalachian Mountains discovered that a steel handsaw, a tool…
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These Bloodworms Grow Copper Fangs and Have Bad Attitudes
Glycera dibranchiata is exactly the kind of creature you don’t want to find at the bottom of your beach bucket.…
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They’re All Good Dogs, and It Has Nothing to Do With Their Breed
Don’t judge a book by its cover. Don’t judge a dog by its breed. After conducting owner surveys for 18,385…
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NASA Sees ‘Otherworldly’ Wreckage on Mars With Ingenuity Helicopter
The object resembles a flying saucer that crashed on Mars. And indeed it is. But it doesn’t belong to aliens.…