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Nobel Prize-winning physicist and team use Claude AI to solve decades-old math puzzleA decade after uncovering a mysterious mathematical relationship in the physics of "jamming," Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi and collaborator Francesco Zamponi have finally cracked the case — not with a radical new theory, but with the help of the generative AI Claude.
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Thousands of liberated Africans died on a remote island after the British Navy freed them. We now know where they came from.Thousands of enslaved Africans were liberated from slave ships and died on the island of St. Helena around 200 years ago. A new chemical analysis has revealed their tragic stories.
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Oops! Ancient Bronze Age shaman long assumed to be a man was actually a woman, DNA revealsA DNA analysis of a 4,000-year-old skeleton buried with an elaborate metalworking tool kit near Stonehenge has revealed that the individual, long assumed to be a male shaman, was actually a woman.
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'This was one of the most arduous expeditions I've ever done': Scientists confirm that 15-mile-wide pit found on Google Maps is ancient meteor craterJoël Lapointe was using Google Maps to plan a camping trail through Quebec's Côte-Nord region when he stumbled across a large indentation. Now, scientists have confirmed that the pit was indeed a meteor impact crater that dates back roughly 390 million years.
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New 3D silicon chip stacks circuits on top of each other to boost computing powerResearchers have found a way to build a three-layered silicon chip without the chip overheating.
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Orange-lipped monkey that roars and snorts deep in Congo rainforest is new species to scienceA striking new monkey species, Colobus congoensis, was discovered deep in the Congo rainforest and has been scientifically described for the first time.
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Robot dog can climb stairs, navigate a forest and bound over logs thanks to new, rapid AI training techniqueResearchers used reinforcement learning to train a quadrupedal robot to adapt to different environments using two different pre-learned gaits.
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Physicists made a black hole out of light and used it to test Stephen Hawking's elusive radiation theoryScientists made a breakthrough discovery about the physics of Hawking radiation by making a miniature black hole out of light in the laboratory.
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How wildfire smoke harms the body, and how to protect yourselfExperts lay bare the health effects of breathing in wildfire smoke and the steps that can be taken to reduce your risk.
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Scientists show that DNA can last for up to 50,000 years in Africa — much longer than previously thoughtResearchers extracted DNA from long-dead animals that lived in South Africa during the last ice age, revealing that genetic material lasts longer in hot climates than was previously thought.
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Scientists are deep-freezing koala eggs and sperm to protect the species from extinctionResearchers at the University of Queensland in Australia want to freeze koala sex cells in liquid nitrogen, which could preserve the DNA for decades until we need it, an expert said.
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5 'extremely rare' iron shackles discovered in France highlight Celtic slave trade 2,300 years agoArchaeologists were surprised to find evidence of shackles in a pre-Roman settlement in France.
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Sugar found in raspberries discovered near the center of the Milky WayErythrulose, a sugar found in raspberries, was spotted in a gas and dust cloud near the center of the Milky Way.
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18 ancient Egyptian tombs with dozens of gold 'tongues' discovered along the Mediterranean coastArchaeologists have found 18 tombs at an ancient Egyptian site by the Mediterranean coast of Egypt.
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Venezuela's devastating 'earthquake doublet' holds a warning for California's San Andreas FaultAnalysis The Venezuelan earthquake doublet is a stark reminder that multi-fault systems may pose greater destructive power than some seismic models predict.
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Songbirds are in crisis as trappers and smugglers force them into lucrative bird-singing competitionsMillions of songbirds in Southeast Asia are trapped and smuggled each year for keeping as pets or entering in competitions. Scientists warn that it's fueling a crisis.
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A mini-universe recreates time, arctic ice gets thickened, one of the oldest graves of a free Black person in the US found, and the first photo from a secretive Chinese mission to a quasi moon.Science news this week July 11, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend
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Medieval babies and adults buried together in Sweden were not related, archaeologists discover — raising big questions about early Christian burial practicesIn an unexpected discovery, researchers found that three medieval Swedish cemeteries held children buried with unrelated adults.
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NASA is creating a fifth state of matter on the ISS following upgrades to mini-fridge-sized quantum labA new set of upgrades to the International Space Station’s Cold Atom Laboratory is allowing NASA to probe quantum mechanics at the coldest possible temperatures while in zero gravity.
