A mysterious monument hidden for 12,000 years in Turkey is revealing secrets about how ancient humans might have tracked time. Intricate carvings hint at a calendar system far older than anything previously known.
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A mysterious monument hidden for 12,000 years in Turkey is revealing secrets about how ancient humans might have tracked time. Intricate carvings hint at a calendar system far older than anything previously known.
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Imagine an ocean so vast that it could swallow all the world’s surface water—three times over. Now imagine that this ocean isn’t on the surface at ... Continue Reading →
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THE FIRST ISSUE of “American Gardener,” the newly redesigned member magazine of the American Horticultural Society, arrived recently, and in it are lots of good reads—including an article by Nancy Lawson, a.k.a. The Humane Gardener.
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The clean rooms used to prep NASA's Phoenix Mars lander for launch were not as clean as we thought.
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A strange turquoise glow has been spotted off Australia's southern coast—so bright it’s visible from space. NASA satellites captured the phenomenon unfolding over remote waters near Tasmania.
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This week is the best time in May to view the night sky. Here's everything you can see during May's dark skies, from an upside-down bear to some of the oldest stars in the universe.
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Scientists may have found a clean hydrogen jackpot underground, with a new recipe to find and tap it.
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The spiral galaxy shines with the light of countless newly-born stars.
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Every chip of flint or shard of bone builds a narrative of how early humans used tools to feed themselves and cooperated to form societies.
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Sporadic E layers lit up during a solar storm, moving from poles to equator—surprising researchers and revealing potential communication threats.
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A new paper explains how the properties of fault rocks and geologic events that took place over a billion years ago could signal concerning seismic activity for Utah's population center. Utah’s Wasatch Fault extends about 240 miles along the western edge of t…
Saturday, May 17
Is consciousness is a fundamental feature of the universe, present in all matter to some degree? This idea is known as panpsychism.
Saturday, May 17
Fossils of the underwater predator shed new light on biodiversity from the Cambrian period.
Saturday, May 17
Argentine paleontologists present Cienciargentina sanchezi, the oldest rebbachisaurid (94 million years old).
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