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New robotic heart mimics common, mysterious condition to help researchers study itA new robotic heart can recreate different stages of heart failure, potentially giving researchers a new way to test treatments before they reach patients.
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6,000-year-old broken ribs discovered in Syria may be one of the oldest known cases of child abuse in the worldAround 6,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, an infant suffered severe injuries in what might be the Middle East's earliest documented case of child abuse.
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Euclid telescope discovers the 2 most ancient monster black holes in the universe — each brighter than a trillion sunsA collection of newfound objects discovered by the Euclid telescope more than doubles the number of known quasars from the universe's first billion years.
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Neanderthals and modern humans may have shared culture 59,000 years ago in Turkey, study findsFossils, stone tools and seashells in Turkey show that Neanderthals and the Homo sapiens who moved in later had the same hunting strategies and symbolic traditions even without overlapping at the site, suggesting they may have shared information.
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Hubble telescope spots 'impossible' light from a galaxy that shouldn't have been visibleResearchers say the surprising discovery of the faraway galaxy MXDFz4.4 could help explain how the cosmos went from opaque to transparent billions of years ago.
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500-year-old freeze-dried potato snacks discovered in Inca storage room in PeruIn a rare find, archaeologists in Peru have discovered freeze-dried potatoes that the Inca carried hundreds of miles from the Andes so their people would not starve.
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2,000-year-old scrolls buried by Mount Vesuvius eruption finally deciphered with help from AIExperts have unraveled substantial new text from two carbonized Herculaneum scrolls, including what may be a previously unknown work by a Stoic philosopher.
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Ancient empires quiz: Can you match these lands to the historical powers that ruled them?Quiz From the Andes to the steppes of Central Asia, great empires have waxed and waned. Can you match each territory to the culture that once ruled it?
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