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Archaeologists Dug Under an Ice Cream Parlor—and Found a Medieval Knight’s Skeleton
About a foot under the tombstone, crews discovered the remains of a coffin holding a full skeleton. Aleksandra Pudlo from the ...
Massive Underground Blobs May Tell Us Where the Next Mass Extinction Could Start
By simulating the movement of two continent-sized Big Lower-Mantle Basal Structures, or BLOBs, researchers may have uncovered ...
Scientists Drilled for Geothermal Energy. They Hit a 67-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Instead.
Finding a dinosaur bone in a core is like hitting a hole in one from the Moon,” James Hagadorn, the museum’s curator of ...
This 20-Million-Year-Old Rhino May Have Had the Most Important Tooth Ever, Scientists Say
Well, the the important part is what scientists found in the teeth:the oldest surviving proteins every discovered.
If This Comet Is What We Think It Is, It’s Unlike Any Object Humanity Has Ever Seen
Comet 31/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object to ever be observed whizzing through the Solar System. While its origins are uncertain, the comet is thought to come from a part of the Milky Way ...
A Legendary Ship Vanished With $138 Million in Treasure. Two Explorers Say They Found It.
When famed pirates overtook a Portuguese ship in 1721 once laden with treasure (now valued over $138 million), the battle ...
I'm a Lawn Mower Purist. The John Deere Z370R Electric ZTrak Zero-Turn Mower Has Me Thinking About Going Electric
The zero-turn lawn mower is one of the best lawn care upgrades you can make. The larger the lawn, the more these ...
Death Isn’t the Final Off Switch. There’s a Mysterious ‘Third State’ Between Life and Decay, Scientists Say.
After clinical death, some of your cells refuse to quit, or even attempt to reconfigure into strange, emergent forms.
Humans Could Develop a Powerful Sixth Sense That Expands How We See the World, Scientists Say
Imagine navigating a pitch-black room and knowing exactly where every object is without ever switching on a light.