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Dirty 'button' unearthed by metal detectorist turns out to be a rare 900-year-old coin from Norway's last Viking king, Magnus BarefootA rare coin from the reign of Magnus Barefoot — sometimes called Norway's last Viking king, was mistaken for a button before researchers realized it was the first of its kind found on Norwegian soil.
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Physicists develop the first working model of quantum mechanics using only 'real' numbersPhysicists have built a real-number version of quantum mechanics that makes all the same predictions as the standard theory, resolving a question that's simmered since the field began.
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The Milky Way may be wider, heavier, and more lopsided than we realizedNew measurements suggest that two of the Milky Way's spiral arms are around 10% farther away from Earth than we thought. The findings may require experts to revise estimates of the total size of our home galaxy.
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Scientists build tiny 'diving suit' for cockroaches, turning them into search-and-rescue cyborgsResearchers in Singapore and Japan have built a waterproof shell for cyborg cockroaches that could be deployed in disaster zones to investigate flooded areas.
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Quantum computing wielded to create extremely rare material critical to nuclear fusionNuclear fusion inches closer after scientists combine supercomputing, AI and quantum computing to blueprint a way to create more tritium.
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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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'Explosive diarrhea' parasite infections confirmed in hundreds of people across US, with 1,251 in Michigan aloneMichigan has been particularly hard hit by the cyclosporiasis outbreak, with 1,251 cases reported — the highest in the state's history.
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100,000 years ago, one of the earliest Homo sapiens outside Africa was stabbed in the face, analysis findsA microscopic analysis of the skull of Qafzeh 25 revealed a cut mark likely made by a stone tool 100,000 years ago.
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We remember little to nothing of early childhood — and a recent mouse study may help explain whyEarly in life, neural networks in the brain's memory center are highly connected, and they are only later refined into precise systems, a mouse study finds.
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Secretive Chinese probe snaps first photo of Earth's mysterious 'quasi-moon' — and it may pose a big problemChina's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has captured the first close-up photo of one of Earth's "quasi-moons," Kamo'oalewa. However, the image and the timing of its release suggest that it may be harder for the probe to collect samples from the space rock than originally planned.
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'What we found was striking': Scientists detect new kind of signal from a black hole's 'point of no return'Physicists isolated the "last sound" of an enormous black hole collision, providing an unprecedented glimpse of the region next to the event horizon.
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'One of the oldest gravestones of a free Black person in America' discovered in BostonExperts have identified the gravestone of Boston, a free Black man who died in 1729.
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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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Physicist demonstrates a key theory of time by building a 'mini-universe' in his labBy ignoring part of his own experiment, a physicist coaxed time to emerge from within a closed quantum system.
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2,500-year-old tomb of a 'warrior prince' with chariot and helmet discovered on Italy's Adriatic coastArchaeologists have excavated a royal burial ground of the Piceni, a mysterious pre-Roman civilization in Italy that is not well known historically.
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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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Scientists just created the most lifelike cell ever made in a lab — here's what it could accomplishSpudCell is a new cell-like platform that can feed, grow and divide like a normal cell — but it's not yet a perfect re-creation of the real thing.
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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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Heart issues tied to 'microdamage' in the brain might raise risk of memory loss, study hintsWhen the heart's pumping function gets weaker, areas of the brain linked to memory show early signs of damage, a study finds.
