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80,000-year-old stones in Uzbekistan may be the world’s oldest arrowheads — and they might have been made by Neanderthals
Tiny stone artifacts discovered in Uzbekistan may be the oldest known arrowheads, a new study suggests. It remains unclear whether…
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An exotic quartz arrow may have killed a man 12,000 years ago in Vietnam
Around 12,000 years ago, a man was shot by an arrow with an exotic stone tip in what is now…
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Thousands of bumblebee catfish captured climbing waterfall in never-before-seen footage
Never-before-seen footage has captured thousands of catfish climbing a waterfall in southern Brazil — the first detailed observation of the…
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‘Potentially hazardous’ asteroid Bennu contains dust older than the solar system itself — and traces of interstellar space
The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than our solar system, as well as organic materials and ices…
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James Webb Space Telescope uncovers 300 mysteriously luminous objects. Are they galaxies or something else?
Hundreds of unexpectedly energetic objects have been discovered throughout the distant universe, possibly hinting that the cosmos was far more…
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‘Minibrains’ reveal secrets of how key brain cells form in the womb
Immune cells in the human brain may be critical to orchestrating the organ’s development in the womb because they trigger…
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Forecasters predict La Niña conditions this fall: What to expect
La Niña conditions could develop in the fall and early winter, but they will probably be weak and short-lived, forecasters…
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X-ray telescope finds something unexpected with the ‘heartbeat black hole’
A black hole’s bizarre “heartbeat” is forcing astronomers to reconsider how these cosmic heavyweights behave. Observations of IGR J17091-3624 —…
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Scientists may have found a powerful new space object: ‘It doesn’t fit comfortably into any known category’
A bewilderingly powerful mystery object found in a nearby galaxy and only visible so far in millimeter radio wavelengths could…
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Mysterious 300,000-year-old Greek cave skull was neither human nor Neanderthal, study finds
A mysterious skull with a stalagmite growing out of its head is about 300,000 years old and neither human nor…
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