Science
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Human Bones in Spain Likely Those of Medieval Bishop behind Pilgrimage
MADRID (Reuters) — Remains found in a tomb in northwestern Spain are likely to belong to a ninth-...
August 29, 2024
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Scientists Obtain Deepest Rock Sample from Mantle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Scientists using an ocean drilling vessel have dug the deepest hole ever i...
August 29, 2024
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JAXA Ends Operations of SLIM Lunar Lander
Tokyo, Aug. 26 (Jiji Press) — The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said Monday that i...
August 27, 2024
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Ancient Egypt’s ‘Screaming’ Mummy May Have Died in Agony
It is a startling image from ancient Egypt — a mummy discovered during a 1935 archaeological expe...
August 22, 2024
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NASA Images Unlock Complex History of 2 Near-Earth Asteroids
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — In the moments before NASA’s DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dim...
August 21, 2024
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Newly Unearthed Pompeii Victims Found with Coins, Gems
ROME (Reuters) — Archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered the remains ...
August 21, 2024
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New Finds in Treasure-laden Shipwreck Off Colombia
BOGOTA (AFP-Jiji) — New artifacts have been found on the legendary Spanish galleon San Jose, Colo...
August 21, 2024
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TEPCO to Commence Groundbreaking Fukushima Debris Extraction; Marking New Phase in Decommissioning
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. (TEPCO) is set to begin a trial extraction of melted ...
August 17, 2024
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Spanish Laboratory Sterilizes Mosquitoes
NAQUERA, Spain (Reuters) — A Spanish laboratory is breeding and sterilizing thousands of tiger mo...
August 8, 2024
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Primordial Spiny Slug from China Was Forerunner of World’s Mollusks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Earth’s roughly 76,000 species of mollusks come in an impressive variety o...
August 8, 2024
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ESA’s Juice Spacecraft to Swing by Earth, Moon on Jovian Path
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — A spacecraft launched last year will slingshot back around Earth and the Moon ...
August 8, 2024
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Butchered Animal Bones Indicate Earliest Human Presence in Southern South America
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) — Fossil bones found in Argentina of a large armadillo relative with cut m...
August 8, 2024
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Plague May Have Driven Stone Age European Population Crash
Around 5,000 years ago, the population in northern Europe collapsed, decimating Stone Age farming...
August 7, 2024
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World’s Oldest Cave Painting Shows Pig, People
On the ceiling of a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, scientists have discover...
August 1, 2024
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Study Shows Human Sickness Risk From Bird Flu-Tainted Raw Milk; Virus Is Infectious In Unpasteurized Milk For Five Weeks
A study using mice suggests that consuming raw milk from cows infected with avian influenza poses...
August 1, 2024
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