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QUICK FACTSName: Ribchester HelmetWhat it is: A bronze helmet with a face-mask visorWhere it is from: Ribchester, in northwest EnglandWhen it was made: Circa A.D. 100In…
Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, unleashing millions of laser pulses into a dense tropical forest. The objective: map…
New laboratory experiments used “noses-in-a-dish” to unpack why the common cold triggers mild illness in some people while sending others to the hospital.In the depths of…
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For close to a century, geoscientists have pondered a mystery: Where did Earth’s lighter elements go? Compared to amounts in the Sun and in some meteorites,…
A medieval seal with a blood-red gemstone that was discovered in the U.K. is hiding an ancient secret, researchers have found.A metal detectorist discovered the medieval…
quick factsWhat it is: Lupus 3 (GN 16.05.2 and Bernes 149) molecular cloudWhere it is: About 500 light-years away, in the constellation ScorpiusWhen it was shared:…
Around 8000 B.C., a canoe carved from a single pine log came to rest in what is now the Netherlands. The roughly 10-foot-long (3 meters) boat…
Around 50% of a person’s lifespan is determined by genetics, a new study suggests, more than doubling previous estimates of the heritability of longevity.The new research,…
Astronomers have solved the mystery of how some stars stay youthfully bright and blue, despite being almost as old as the universe itself: They cannibalize their…
