A broken tooth lodged deep in bone can outlast the animal that lost it. In two whale skulls from Belgium, those fragments have done exactly that, preserving a moment of violence from roughly five million years ago.
The skulls, both from the Early…
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This Chinese Dam Is So Big It Altered The Earth’s Rotation
Over the course of humanity’s long, slow slog through the ages, we’ve built some incredible structures, and China in particular is not new to grand engineering feats. The Great Wall is roughly 13,166 miles long, constructed over the course of…
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Scientists just found a hidden 48-dimensional world in quantum light
Scientists at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, working with collaborators from Huzhou University, have uncovered a surprising feature in one of the most widely used tools in quantum optics. They found that standard methods for…
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A Japanese Team Found Strange Black Eggs at 6,200 Meters Depth, Here’s What They Discovered Inside When They Opened Them
At nearly 6,200 meters below the Pacific Ocean’s surface, scientists have discovered mysterious black eggs attached to a rock, structures that turned out to contain a previously unknown species of flatworm.
The discovery was made during…
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A Keto Surprise, a New Particle, And Much More! : ScienceAlert
This week in science: A study finds a surprising bonus benefit of the keto diet; CERN discovers a new particle; a worrying trend uncovered in US life expectancy data; and much more!
Keto Diet May Have a Surprising Bonus Benefit, Mouse Study…
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Brain’s protective barrier stays leaky for years after playing contact sports
March 21, 2026
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Brain’s protective barrier stays leaky for years after playing contact sports
Damage to the blood-brain barrier is linked to immune changes and cognitive decline
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Archaeologists Found a Strange Metal From Beyond Earth Hidden in 3,000‑Year‑Old Treasure Stash
Hidden in a small city museum in southeastern Spain lies a Bronze Age hoard that long puzzled archaeologists. The Treasure of Villena contains 66 objects, mostly gold and silver, with a few stray pieces of iron so unusual that for decades…
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GlassWorm malware hides in invisible open-source code
March 21, 2026
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Open-source software has an invisible vulnerability. Hackers have found it
A cybercrime campaign called GlassWorm is hiding malware in invisible characters and spreading it through software that…
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Why are humans the only species with a chin?
Humans are the only species with a chin — a feature absent from even our closest relatives. Indeed, it’s such a unique anatomical quirk that it’s one of the main traits anthropologists use to identify Homo sapiens remains in the fossil…