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Stephen Hawking's famous black hole paradox may finally have a solution

The 'Hawking radiation' emitted by black holes may be able to carry information after all, a new solution to Stephen Hawking's famous paradox suggests.

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1,100-year-old 'ceremonial' Viking shields were actually used in battle, study suggests

The Viking shields found on the Gokstad ship in 1880 were not strictly ceremonial and may have been used in hand-to-hand combat, according to a new analysis.

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Clever, bird-like dinosaurs that lived 74 million years ago got cozy in communal nests, study suggests

New research has found that troodontids, a group of bird-like dinosaurs that lived 74 million years ago, had high enough body temperatures to brood their eggs in communal nests.

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See the oldest human ever found in Egypt in stunning new facial approximation

Using photogrammetry, researchers created two facial approximations of an ancient Egyptian man.

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Why are some people always late?

Being late is a tendency that some people cannot seem to shake. Many factors contribute to perpetual lateness, including time perception, time management and personality.

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How long will it take for humans to colonize another planet?

There's a huge difference between sending humans to Mars and colonizing worlds outside our solar system.

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Who ruled ancient Egypt after King Tut died?

When the pharaoh Tutankhamun died young, his widow may have tried to remain on the ancient Egyptian throne, ancient letters reveal.

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The secrets to extreme longevity may be hiding with nuns... and jellyfish

Some people live to be well beyond 100. But what genes and environmental factors contribute to such extreme longevity, and what can we learn from other long-lived animals?

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Indigenous people of the American West used 'sacred' horses a half-century earlier than previously thought

Indigenous oral histories and archaeological evidence are rewriting the story of how horses came to the American West.

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T. rex had thin lips and a gummy smile, controversial study suggests

Paleontologists have suggested that thin, lizard-like lips concealed the gigantic teeth of T. rex and other predatory dinosaurs, but not all experts are convinced.

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We're nowhere near reaching the maximum human life span, controversial study suggests

Human longevity records may be broken in the next few decades, a new modeling study suggests.

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DeepMind's AI used to develop tiny 'syringe' for injecting gene therapy and tumor-killing drugs

Researchers used the AI system AlphaFold to develop a tiny "syringe" that can inject proteins into cells.

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Mathematicians make rare breakthrough on notoriously tricky 'Ramsey number' problem

The bounds on Ramsey numbers, which describe relationships between nodes in a network, have been narrowed.

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Why did a weird goblin shark going viral on Twitter blow up into a bizarre scientific spat?

Last year, scientists described a weird goblin shark in a scientific journal despite never setting eyes on it. Experts now question the review process that approved the study.

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Was Stonehenge an ancient calendar? A new study says no.

Was Stonehenge an ancient solar calendar, as a 2022 study claimed? Not at all, says a new study by two scientists who specialize in ancient astronomy.

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Why is endometriosis so hard to diagnose?

Endometriosis often has vague symptoms that overlap with other conditions, and there are no non-invasive ways to definitively diagnose the condition.

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Photo shows 'massive' great white shark scarred after rare battle with 2 serial killer orcas

A pair of orcas off the coast of South Africa have been ripping open sharks and feasting on their livers for the last eight years. A great white shark that survived an attack by the serial killer brothers has now been identified through huge scars across its massive body.

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How do you decontaminate objects exposed to radioactivity?

Can a person or object exposed to high radioactivity just take a shower with soap and water, or is more needed for decontamination?

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Your native language may shape the wiring of your brain

The connections between different regions of the brain responsible for language processing depend on which language you grew up with.

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Watch 2 megamouth sharks caught on video for the 1st time ever

This rare video, showing two megamouth sharks swimming off the coast of San Diego, is scientists' 'only knowledge' of the sharks' social lives.

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Most powerful solar storm in 6 years caused auroras all over the US. And nobody saw it coming.

A severe geomagnetic storm from a huge hole in the sun's corona caused a massive disturbance in Earth's magnetic field. The surprise event sparked auroras as far south as Alabama and northern California.

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Ancient Egyptian pharaoh-sphinx statues unearthed at sun temple

Archaeologists have discovered broken pharaoh-sphinx statues at an ancient Egyptian sun temple.

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Scientists want to clone an extinct bison unearthed from Siberian permafrost. Experts are skeptical.

Researchers in Russia recently dissected a mummified bison dating back to around 8,000 years ago. The remains are so well preserved that the team thinks the extinct animal could be cloned, but others disagree.

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Legendary 'cat-fox' could be a new subspecies

The real-life origins of a once-mythological wildcat called the "cat-fox" are finally coming to light thanks to recent genetics research.

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