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'We're trying this out of frustration': Marmots star in OnlyFans account as researchers desperately look for ways to raise funds amid US budget cutsAs U.S. federal research budgets continue to be slashed, a team of marmot researchers have turned to unconventional sources of funding.
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'Extremely rare' Roman military camp found in Slovakia holds hastily buried remains of Marcus Aurelius' soldiers — with some dumped in wellsArchaeologists found a Roman military camp in Slovakia with unusual burials of soldiers who likely fought in Marcus Aurelius' Marcomannic Wars.
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Meet Phantom Twist, a stealthy new drone that hides in plain sight by tricking your eyesHigh-speed rotation exploits the concept of motion blur to conceal a new drone while it's in flight.
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'It was unlike anything I'd witnessed before': Orcas seen headbutting a sunfish so hard that it explodedIn two encounters in the Gulf of California, one orca held a dead sunfish in place while another rammed it at high speed, breaking the carcass into what appear to be bite-sized pieces for younger whales.
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'Once we were like you': Striking reconstructions reveal the faces of 16 people from Roman-era HungaryDNA analysis, 3D-printed skulls and forensic sculpture helped experts recreate people who lived near the ancient Roman frontier city of Aquincum nearly 1,700 years ago.
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NASA awakens New Horizons spacecraft to do science billions of miles beyond PlutoNASA's record-breaking New Horizons spacecraft has awoken from a 321-day hibernation in "good health" as it resumes unprecedented science at the solar system's edge.
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Mice on 'godforsaken' frozen volcanoes eat toxic plants to survive conditions 'not remotely compatible with long-term human survival'Researchers risked their lives to study Andean leaf-eared mice on the inhospitable peaks of the Puna de Atacama volcanoes in Chile.
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Sacrificed Inca children died very differently than we thought, study findsA new look at three children who died in the Inca human sacrifice ceremony known as Capacocha reveals their last few months and moments.
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NASA shares image of impossible-looking crystal growing on the space station. What is happening?Astronauts grew a scroll-like crystal aboard the ISS, and its strange shape reveals what happens to ordinary salts once gravity stops running the show.
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Greenland meltwater will drive a 'strong weakening, but not a shutdown' of key Atlantic currents, study findsNew modeling suggests meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet has a big weakening influence on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, but the runoff likely won't cause a complete and irreversible collapse.
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Startup's 'oscillator-based' AI technology could be 1,000 times more energy efficient than conventional computingEngineers say an AI image generator built on a new type of physical computing could use far less power than existing stable diffusion-based methods.
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The bacteria behind gum disease may also harm your heart valves, early research suggestsA bacterium linked to gum disease may contribute to heart valve disease by setting off inflammation that can lead to calcium buildup.
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Mysterious 'little red dots' at the beginning time may finally have an explanationAstronomers may have found an unexpected origin for the mysterious "little red dots" that appear to be so common in James Webb Space Telescope surveys of the early universe.
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British vial of smallpox scabs triggered the devastating 1789 outbreak among Indigenous Australians, study findsIt's long been debated what started the devastating 1789 smallpox outbreak among Indigenous Australians. Now, a new modeling study has the likely answer.
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'It's absolutely exciting!': Astronomers discover atmosphere around an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone for first timeAstronomers have detected helium escaping from the super-Earth LHS 1140 b, providing the strongest evidence yet that a rocky planet in another star's habitable zone has retained an atmosphere for billions of years.
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Decorated wild-boar tusk found in Russia may have been medieval warrior's good-luck charmA 12th-century wild-boar tusk found in Russia may be a warrior's amulet.
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Cells from your mother likely infiltrated your brain in the womb, and they could survive for decades, study revealsMaternal cells that infiltrate children's brains during pregnancy take on different jobs in the brain and may persist into old age.
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'Fireball' meteorite that smashed into New Jersey home contains ingredients of life from ancient proto-planetAmino acids and other "pre-biotic" molecules were spotted in a meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home in 2024.
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Ancient Egyptian golden tongues, sugar found in space, and an ancient impact crater 'geoguessed' by amateur astronomerScience news this week July 18, 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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