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Searching for 'Makozilla' — the supersized mako sharks in the North Pacific

A decade after a huge mako shark dubbed "The Beast" was caught off the California coast, experts search for its enormous relatives.

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Missing pieces of 6th-century Byzantine bucket finally found at Sutton Hoo

Archaeologists at Sutton Hoo, a 1,400-year-old boat burial in England, have discovered pieces of a broken bucket from the Byzantine Empire.

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Computer inspired by Japanese art of paper-cutting has no electronics and stores data in tiny cubes

The new mechanical computer uses 64 physical cubes to represent binary bits and is inspired by kirigami — the Japanese art of paper-folding and cutting.

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6 animals where females reign supreme

From honeybees to elephants, here are six animals with female bosses.

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Never-before-seen vampire squid species discovered in twilight zone of South China Sea

Scientists discover what appears to be the second known living species of vampire squid swimming in deep water off Hainan island, China.

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6,000-year-old burial mound in Czech Republic may be one of earliest funeral monuments ever found in Europe

The structure is thought to be made by the people behind the Neolithic Funnel-Beaker culture.

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What is brominated vegetable oil, and why did the FDA ban it in food?

The FDA will no longer allow BVO in food due to safety concerns revealed in studies.

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World's largest nuclear fusion reactor is finally completed. But it won't run for another 15 years.

ITER, a $28 billion fusion reactor in France, has finally had its last magnetic coil installed. But the reactor itself won't fire up fully until 2039 at the earliest.

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Scientists just grew the 1st-ever 'minibrains' from multiple people's cells

Hybrid brain organoids could be used to test how people respond differently to drugs before clinical trials begin, researchers say.

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'It's hard to communicate how unbelievable this is': Hurricane Beryl is the earliest Category 5 storm on record

Unprecedented sea surface temperatures have driven the powerful storm to form early in the year, sowing catastrophe across the Caribbean.

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Alien 'warp drives' may leave telltale signals in the fabric of space-time, new paper claims

A new paper suggests that we may be able to spot alien spaceships hopping between distant stars using "warp drives" because the sci-fi-inspired technology would give off specific gravitational waves that are unlike anything else we know about.

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51,000-year-old Indonesian cave painting may be the world's oldest storytelling art

A 51,000-year-old painting in the Sulawesi cave "art gallery" is the oldest evidence of narrative rock art ever discovered.

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The Milky Way may be surrounded by 'too many' mini galaxies, new discoveries reveal

Astronomers have just discovered two dwarf galaxy candidates orbiting our galaxy. The orientation of these entities suggests there could be up to 500 similar stellar clusters circling the Milky Way, which is more than double previous estimates.

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280 million-year-old swamp monster with 'big, flat toilet seat-shaped head' discovered in Namibia

Giant salamander-like predator that lived 40 million years before the first dinosaurs had huge fangs and sucked up prey with its weird head.

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The Milky Way will be visible without a telescope this summer. Here are the key nights to watch for.

Summer is the best time to see the Milky Way in the Northern Hemisphere without a telescope. The key is to find clear, dark skies on moonless nights.

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The gut microbiome has a circadian rhythm. Here's how it might affect your health.

Daily fluctuations in gut microbes may have a plethora of effects on the body, but many questions remain.

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Long-lost homestead of King Pompey, enslaved African who gained freedom, found in colonial New England

Archaeologists have discovered the homestead of Pompey, a formerly enslaved man from West Africa who was elected "king" by his community in the 1700s.

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Ants perform life saving operations — the only animal other than humans known to do so

Florida ants perform amputations and clean wounds to prevent the spread of infection, scientists discover.

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Bionic legs plugged directly into nervous system enable unprecedented 'level of brain control'

A first-of-its-kind study demonstrated that a new nervous system-controlled bionic leg helps leg amputees walk more naturally than traditional prosthesis.

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Near-indestructible moss can survive gamma rays and liquid nitrogen

This little moss withstands deadly blasts of radiation, extreme cold and dehydration — and could probably survive on Mars.

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4,000-year-old rock art in Venezuela may be from a 'previously unknown' culture

Archaeologists in Venezuela have discovered 20 previously unknown rock art sites that are thousands of years old.

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When did humans start wearing shoes?

The oldest known sandals are from Oregon, but there may be older shoes out there.

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12,000-year-old Aboriginal sticks may be evidence of the oldest known culturally transmitted ritual in the world

Aboriginal artifacts in Australia that were likely used for ritual spells may be evidence of the oldest culturally transmitted ritual on record.

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Earth from space: Green River winds through radioactive 'labyrinth of shadows'

This 2018 astronaut photo shows a striking section of the Green River as it winds through Utah's "Labyrinth Canyon." The canyon's steep walls cast long shadows that hide many secrets, including caves and abandoned uranium mines.

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'The beauty of symbolic equations is that it's much easier to … see a problem at a glance': How we moved from words and pictures to thinking symbolically

"Even the +, −, =, and × signs we take for granted only came into widespread use in the 17th century. Which means that the earlier algebraists we know of … all had expressed their equations mostly in words or pictorial word images"

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