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There's a new T. rex from the dinosaur age — and it ruled the seas with a skull-crushing biteThe newly described mosasaur Tylosaurus rex spanned up to 43 feet (13 meters) long and may have been one of the fiercest marine predators of the dinosaur age.
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800-year-old 'hugging skeletons' are genetically confirmed as Poland's only medieval same-sex double burialTwo skeletons found in an embrace next to a 13th-century Polish cathedral were both women, an ancient DNA analysis confirms, but their relationship remains a mystery.
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Great Pyramid of Giza is remarkably resilient to earthquakes — and it's due to the ancient Egyptians' 'extraordinary' engineering knowledgeThe Great Pyramid of Giza has survived for more than 4,600 years despite nearby earthquakes, and new research reveals why.
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China's real-life 'transformer' mech is a giant humanoid robot that can switch from bounding on 4 legs to walking on 2The new 'mecha' robot, which weighs over 1,000 pounds and stands nearly 10 foot tall, is designed for urban mobility.
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How can we prevent AI models from cannibalizing themselves when human-generated data runs out? Scientists say they've found the answer.Researchers have found that introducing human-made data into AI training can help to prevent AI model collapse.
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Complex animals evolved up to 10 million years earlier than previously thought, fossil discovery showsTrove of fossils discovered in Canada sheds light on "when life first became large, complex and unmistakenly animal."
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Scurvy-plagued whalers' remains discovered at 'Corpse Point' in SvalbardSkeletons of early modern whalers reveal widespread scurvy, pipe smoking and heavy physical labor.
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Common asthma drug helps fight hard-to-treat cancers, including aggressive breast cancers, early study findsScientists found that blocking a protein best known for its role in asthma enhances cancer immunotherapy in preclinical models.
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Physicists confirm 'negative time' is real in mind-bending quantum experimentA new experiment confirms that photons passing through a cloud of atoms can spend a negative amount of time there, and the atoms themselves are the ones saying so.
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The Appalachian Mountains hold enough lithium to make 500 billion cellphones, researchers discoverResearchers with the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that the ancient Appalachians mountain system holds 2.5 million tons of the critical element lithium.
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800-year-old notebook and fancy silk toilet paper discovered in medieval latrine in GermanyArchaeologists recovered the 10-page wax notebook with Latin writing and its leather carrying case from a medieval latrine in Germany.
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China installs world's largest floating wind turbine in deep water test — it generates enough energy to power 4,200 homes annuallyThree Gorges Pilot, a 16-megawatt floating offshore wind turbine, marks a major step for deep-water renewable energy and the future of floating wind farms.
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More young people are getting colorectal cancer — here's what scientists think might be happeningAnalysis People 65 and older are seeing their rates of colorectal cancer drop, but younger people are being felled by a rising number of cases.
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'The system is likely to reach a breaking point': Major Italian volcano is speeding toward a transition, and a major eruption could be on the wayCampi Flegrei, a volcanic caldera near Naples, is speeding toward a transition, a new study suggests, but there are still a lot of questions as to whether it will erupt in the near future.
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Scientists discover deadly, highly venomous box jellyfish near Singapore's 'Island of Death Behind'Researchers identified a new species of box jellyfish and recorded a surprising range expansion for the Thai sea wasp after analyzing the morphology and DNA of a handful of jellies in Singapore.
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Antarctica’s sudden sea ice loss is one of the most extreme and confusing events in the modern climate record. Scientists now know why it's happening.In 2015, after decades of relative stability, Antarctica's sea ice suddenly began to disappear. Sea ice extent reached a record low in 2023, and scientists have now figured out what happened in that period.
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World's first 'native' color lidar will let robots and self-driving cars map the world in full color 3DOuster has launched the Rev8 set of lidar sensors that function as both a camera and a 3D mapping sensor at the same time. Its engineers say these are the first devices of their kind in the world.
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Global warming is accelerating 5,000 times faster than rice can evolveA new study finds that climate change is creating environments where humans have never successfully cultivated rice before.
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1,200-year-old giant 'death jar' in Laos contains generations of human skeletonsExcavation of a large stone vessel from the mysterious Laos Plain of Jars has confirmed its use in an ancient funerary tradition.
