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Scientists Just Found the First Evidence of the Milky Way on an Ancient Egyptian Sarcophagus
An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running ...
The Beating Heart of the World’s Biggest Fusion Reactor is Finally Complete
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is nearly 40 years in the making, and its most complex component ...
Scientists Probed a Medieval Alchemist’s Artifacts—and Found an Element That Changes History
These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...
A Quantum Breakthrough Just Proved Teleportation Is Real—And Unlocked the Most Powerful Internet Yet
That is, until now. In a groundbreaking scientific experiment, a team at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of ...
Two Hikers Picked Up an Aluminum Can—and Found a Secret Stash of 600 Gold Coins Inside
Two hikers stumbled upon a small aluminum can in a forested area of the Czech Republic that contained nearly 600 gold coins.
Dyson V15 Detect Absolute Review: Yes, This Premium Model is Worth the Upgrade
I’ve been using the Dyson V8 Animal+ for the past several years. Here's how this upgraded stick vacuum stacked up.
This Brain Structure Could Be the Key to Understanding Consciousness, Scientists Say
“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in ...
Archaeologists Uncovered a Painting That May Prove the Existence of a Mysterious Creature
In a study published in the journal PLOS ONE, Julien Benoit from the University of the Witwatersrand confirmed that the rock ...
Scientists Drilled So Deep Into the Center of the Earth, They Knocked on the Mantle’s Door
The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.
The Computational Limit of Life May Be So Much Higher Than We Thought, Scientists Say
A new paper written by a theoretical physicist at Howard University claims that aneural eukaryotic cells could process ...
A Thorium Reactor in the Middle of the Desert Has Rewritten the Rules of Nuclear Power
Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than ...
Scientists Found an 8,000-Year-Old Figurine in a Cave. Its Engravings Tell the Story of an Ancient Culture.
The archaeologists discovered the figurine in the Damjili Cave, which was first explored by archaeologists in 1953. Layers ...