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Duck-billed dino with absolutely enormous honker unearthed in Mexico

The newly named dinosaur is unique to Mexico, and it's helping change scientists' understanding of dinosaur ranges across the Americas.

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NASA reveals images of enormous, snowman-shaped asteroid 2024 ON after its ultra-close approach to Earth

New close-up images reveal the surprising snowman shape of "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 ON, which tumbled safely past our planet on Sept. 17.

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'Knife-wielding orca' and alien-looking figures among 300 Nazca Lines discovered in groundbreaking AI study

Scientists used AI to find 303 never-before-seen geoglyphs in Peru's Nazca Desert, including abstract humanoid figures, ancient ceremonies, "decapitated heads" and a "killer whale holding a knife."

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Source of person's recent bird flu case remains a mystery — and experts say that's concerning

The latest human case of bird flu in the U.S. occurred in a patient with no reported exposure to affected animals, sparking questions over whether the virus is spreading between people. Experts say that's unlikely but argue the case raises other concerns.

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'Scuba-diving' lizards breathe underwater by wearing air bubbles on their noses — just like in a cartoon

Scuba-diving lizards use bubbles to stay submerged in water for long periods of time.

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'Martian dog' and dozens of other mysterious blobs found hiding under Mars' north pole in new 'gravity map'

A new map that details gravitational anomalies on Mars has revealed 20 mysteriously dense blobs, including a dog-shaped mass, buried below the planet's north pole. And researchers have no clear idea where they came from.

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Lost Biblical tree resurrected from 1,000-year-old mystery seed found in the Judean Desert

Scientists have grown an ancient seed from a cave in the Judean Desert into a tree — and it could belong to a locally-extinct species with medicinal properties mentioned several times in the Bible.

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Cave of Swimmers: 9,000-year-old rock art of people swimming in what's now the arid Sahara

This series of paintings, found inside a cave in the Sahara, shows a pair of swimmers.

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2,700-year-old shields and helmet from ancient kingdom unearthed at castle in Turkey

The martial artifacts found at the temple complex were likely offerings that an ancient kingdom made to their chief god.

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Why can't you suffocate by holding your breath?

The human body has a number of mechanisms that prevent you from holding your breath until you suffocate.

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Space photo of the week: Entangled galaxies form cosmic smiley face in new James Webb telescope image

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows Arp 107, home to two merging galaxies, with two bright cores and a "bridge" of dust and gas forming a cosmic smiley face.

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Did Roman gladiators really fight to the death?

Being a Roman gladiator was a bloody business, but did all gladiators really fight to the death?

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Antechinus: The tiny marsupials where males have sex until they die — then females eat their corpses

All species in the antechinus genus have the same frenzied mating system, where males have sex until they die from organ failure, then the females gobble up their corpses.

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When was steel invented?

No one knows for sure when steel was invented, but some of the earliest examples crop up in the first millennium B.C. in Central and South Asia.

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3 remarkable spiders: A vegetarian, a vampire and a predator that uses 'pincer, fork and key'

In this extract from "The Lives of Spiders: A Natural History of the World's Spiders," author Ximena Nelson examines three species of spider with unusual diets — plants, blood and pillbugs.

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Science news this week: Spiders on Mars and an ancient Egyptian sword

Sept. 21, 2024: 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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Humans have long been a 'geophysical force on a planetary scale,' says philosopher Timothy Morton. That's neither good nor bad.

The person dubbed "the prophet of the Anthropocene" talks to Live Science about how they got this title, what the Anthropocene means, and why we need to stop trying to define when it started and accept that we've been in it for millennia.

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Drinking wastewater, building an island from scratch and creating an urban forest: 3 bold ways cities are already adapting to climate change

Climate change will fundamentally challenge the world's urban centers. Three cities — San Diego, Milan and Jakarta — offer lessons for how to adapt to a warming planet.

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Men have a daily hormone cycle — and it's synced to their brains shrinking from morning to night

A month-long study of a man's brain revealed that its volume consistently shrunk over the course of each day and then reset overnight.

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'All it takes is a predator to learn that children are easier prey': Why India's 'wolf' attacks may not be what they seem

Indian authorities believe wolf attacks have killed 10 people in the Bahraich region of Uttar Pradesh in recent months, as fear and confusion grips local villages.

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Fossils from lush 53 million-year-old South Pole rainforest discovered in Tasmania

Researchers have identified 12 ancestral plant species from an early Eocene fossil assemblage in Tasmania that once formed part of a giant, circumpolar forest.

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Rainbow swamp: The flooded forest in Virginia that puts on a magical light show every winter

Every winter, when sunlight hits at the right angle, visitors to Virginia's First Landing State Park are treated to a mesmerizing rainbow light show courtesy of the park's bald cypress swamp.

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Stephen Hawking's black hole radiation paradox could finally be solved — if black holes aren't what they seem

New research suggests that black holes may actually be "frozen stars," bizarre quantum objects that lack a singularity and an event horizon, potentially solving some of the biggest paradoxes in black hole physics.

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What is artificial general intelligence (AGI)?

AI development is accelerating — with some scientists suggesting machines will be more intelligent than the smartest humans within the next few years.

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Simple trick could lower city temperatures 3.6 F, London study suggests

Painting city roofs white could lower the temperature in London dramatically on the hottest days, new research suggests.

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