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Archaeologists discover a child's skull built into the floor of a 2,500-year-old Scandinavian houseA study of nearly 200 individuals buried in domestic contexts in ancient and Viking Age Scandinavia has revealed unusually high levels of violence.
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'She knew she had something really important on her hands': Rosalind Franklin figured out DNA's helical structure before Watson and Crick, study suggestsRosalind Franklin knew about DNA's helical structure ahead of Watson and Crick, a new study of her photos and notes reveals.
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'Mpox has not disappeared': Why the infectious disease is still spreading in the US and may be here to stayAnalysis Mpox (formerly monkeypox) continues to circulate in the U.S. Can it be stopped?
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The ozone layer was supposed to be healing. So why is this year's Antarctic ozone hole so big?Analysis The ozone hole above Antarctica is unusually large right now, and it might signal a shift in how the gap in Earth's protective layer behaves.
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Jupiter will disappear behind the moon in a once-in-a-decade alignment tomorrowSkywatchers in the U.S. and eastern Canada can see a rare lunar occultation of Jupiter early on Oct. 6. Here are the exact times to see the giant planet vanish and reappear.
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Ancient Egyptians sacrificed pharaohs' servants so they could continue to serve their king in the afterlife, new study findsThe ancient Egyptians practiced human sacrifice around 5,000 years ago, a new study finds.
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1,800-year-old temple to Mars and statue of Victory unearthed at Roman military fort in GermanyArchaeologists in Germany have found a temple to Mars, the god of war, next to a Roman Empire military encampment.
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New quantum chip taps into weird quasiparticles to get qubits to communicate over long distancesScientists have developed a new type of architecture for quantum computing chips, and it could pave the way for machines capable of large-scale processing.
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Scientists recreate the universe's first moments and find something they didn't expectA particle collider experiment just revealed something unexpected about how the fiery soup of particles that filled the universe after the Big Bang coalesced into the protons and neutrons that make up matter today.
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1 in 8 cancer cases are caused by infections, underscoring the importance of vaccines, experts sayFour pathogens account for most infection-related cancers, a new study highlights, but the tools to prevent them range from well-established vaccines to treatments still under development.
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Rare two-headed turtle hatchling discovered on Cape CodA two-headed turtle hatchling is one of three bicephalic terrapins that have been found on Cape Cod over the past five years.
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Colorful wildflowers bloom across Chile's Atacama Desert in wake of 'super' El NiñoPHOTO GALLERY Chile's Atacama Desert is full of brilliant wildflower blooms thanks to this year's super El Niño.
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Animals may have evolved 200 million years earlier than previously thought, new study suggestsAfter using a technique called molecular clock analysis, researchers have proposed that the origin of animals could be 200 million years earlier than thought.
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The ancestors of today's Indigenous people arrived in the Americas during the coldest part of the last ice age, study suggestsThe first people in the Americas arrived no earlier than 21,000 years ago, but "there are huge gaps in our genetic dataset," a new study reports.
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'A kind of Rosetta Stone': AI decodes 217-year-old secret letter ordered by NapoleonGPT-6 Astra has been used to solve a centuries-old cipher used to convey strategic military information between Napoleon's troops.
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'It's a portrait of their actual ancestor': Facial reconstruction of Indigenous man who lived in Ecuador 3,000 years ago shared with his descendantsYou can now see a facial reconstruction — and the particular hairstyle — of a man who lived more than 3,000 years ago in what is now Ecuador.
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Your voice may reveal how fast you're aging, new AI 'speech clock' suggestsA new machine-learning "speech clock" estimates a person's chronological age from their speech, drawing links between older-sounding speech and cognitive decline.
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Physicists unveil the most accurate atomic clock ever — and it could literally redefine the secondPhysicists have used radioactive lutetium to create what they say is the most accurate atomic clock ever, keeping time perfectly up to 19 decimal places.
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Watch the world's smallest crocodiles snatch bats in their hidden underground lair — a behavior never seen beforeVIDEO Live Science can exclusively reveal a video of Gabon's mysterious cave-dwelling dwarf crocodiles snatching bats in a never-before-seen hunting behavior, ahead of the series premiere of "Africa: Earth's Wild Home."
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