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Confusion on whether Iran truly needed only “two weeks to four weeks” to make a nuclear weapon, as President Donald Trump suggested on Monday, hangs over the ongoing U.S. and Israeli war on the Persian Gulf nation. Nuclear experts call this…

The Sahara Desert, now the largest hot desert on Earth, was once dramatically different. Geological evidence from caves in southern Morocco shows that the region received far more rainfall thousands of years ago.

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Archaeologists have discovered a century-old hoard of gold ruble coins underneath a house in northwestern Russia. The 409 coins were minted during the waning days of the Russian Empire and may be worth more than half a million dollars today.

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Between the 17th and 20th centuries, humans killed millions of whales for oil. They stripped their blubber, spinning the iconic creatures in the water and pulling off the fat in a huge spiral like the peel of an apple. The blubber was boiled…

Problems with sleep often show up much earlier than more recognizable symptoms in people who develop Alzheimer’s disease, but why? A new study offers a major clue, tied to the toxic build-up of tau protein in the brain that accompanies…

The gut microbiome may influence brain aging, mouse study suggests

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Fragments of an early handgun found in Brandenburg, Germany, could be from Europe’s oldest known portable gunpowder weapon, according to new research.

The artifact, which is about 2 inches (6 centimeters) long, may date to 1390. If so, it would…

“Extremophile” bacteria could survive asteroid impacts strong enough to launch them into space, a new lab experiment shows — hinting that these space-rock crashes could spread any potential alien life between worlds.

In the new study,…