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A Construction Crew Was Demolishing a House—And Uncovered a $10 Million Gold Hoard
Forty gold bars and 4,000 coins turned up mid-renovation—and the mystery only deepens from there.
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Scientists Grew a Brain Cortex in a Lab for the First Time Ever
This new organoid will provide valuable insight into how the brain—both mouse and human—develop in the body.
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A Freshwater Giant Living in the Great Lakes May Be Older than the United States
Decades of tagging data suggest lake sturgeon could live well past 400 years old.
© Dmytro Ostashuk
Scientists Uncovered Rings of Otherworldly Origin Hiding in Plain Sight
Forget diamonds—meteorites were an aristocrat’s best friend.
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Archaeologists Digging up a Construction Site Just Found a Lost Roman Fortress
A fortified Roman camp, complete with a bakery and blacksmith’s forge, is still emerging from the soil.
© Mariana-Rusanovschi
Planet Earth Is Conscious—And Its ‘Mind’ Is Shaping the Fate of All Life, Controversial Theory Suggests
If Earth is a superorganism that regulates the conditions for life, humans could be part of its master plan.
A New Discovery at Easter Island Could Rewrite History As We Know It
Radiocarbon dating of ancient scripts suggests a groundbreaking origin story.
© Michael Dunning
Scientists Just Found a Way to Regrow Your Tooth Enamel—And It Could Be Available Next Year
The hardest substance in the human body, tooth enamel, has a major weakness—it can’t regrow. Science is working to fix that.
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Wildfires Make Sounds We Can’t Hear—and That Could Help Us Extinguish Them Faster
Detecting new wildfires is our first line of defense against their disastrous spread, and some researchers wonder if infrasound could aid in that observation mission.
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Scientists Uncovered a Hidden Switch Inside Our Cells That Could Slow—or Even Reverse—Aging
Mitochondria have long been understood as the powerhouse of the cell. Are they also the powerhouse of rejuvenation?
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Archaeologists Found a 440-Year-Old Coin that Marked the Lost Site of a Doomed Colony
The Spanish colony Ciudad del Rey Don Felipe, located at the southern tip of Chile, lasted less than three years due to harsh conditions.
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Something Weird Happened That We Can’t Really Explain With Existing Physics
Why did this particle mysteriously disintegrate?
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Archaeologists Found a Floor Stone Covered in Runes—and It Might Be a 1,000-Year-Old Tombstone
A grave marker’s cryptic message could reveal a lost chapel’s secrets.
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A Student Saw One Lonely Rock. He Suspected a Mystery—and Uncovered a 3,700-Year-Old Ritual Site.
George Bird knew there had to be more to the six-foot-tall standing stone.
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Navy Researchers Scanned the Seafloor and Tracked a Ping. Then They Found a Staggering 500-Year-Old Shipwreck.
At 8,200 feet underwater, it’s the deepest wreck ever found around France’s coastline.
© Vincent Pommeyrol
There’s a Vast Network Beneath Your Feet—And It Could Be Conscious, Some Theories Claim
It’s so large that it could stretch from the sun to Pluto an unfathomable number of times.
Archaeologists Found Ancient Humans on a Mediterranean Island—but They Shouldn’t Have Survived There
New research reveals surprising evidence of human habitation on Malta more than one thousand years earlier than previously thought possible.
© Patricia Marroquin
The Most Dangerous Volcanic Threat to America Is Coming. And It Doesn’t Need an Eruption to Begin.
These fast-moving mudflows can devastate towns in a matter of minutes.
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