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Study Reveals Ancient 26-Foot Shark Lived 115 Million Years Ago, Before Megalodon
This discovery highlights the enormous size and predatory dominance of ancient sharks and provides scientists with a new perspective on the early evolution of the ancestors of today's great white sharks.
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New Discovery Rewrites Timeline Of When Humans Learned To Make Fire
A major archaeological discovery in Suffolk shows that early Neanderthals were making fire about 400,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of fire mastery and reshaping understanding of human evolution.
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Finds Metal-Rich Rock on Mars: What You Need to Know
NASA’s Perseverance rover has identified Phippsaksla, a sculpted, metal-rich boulder in Jezero Crater with an unusually high iron-nickel composition. The rock’s chemistry strongly suggests it is a meteorite formed elsewhere in the solar system. Its presence within impact-shaped terrain offers fresh clues about ancient asteroids and helps scient...
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Scientists Discover 40,000-Year-Old RNA In Frozen Woolly Mammoth
To search for even older RNA, Pour and his team focused on the permafrost regions of Siberia, where thawing soil has yielded many amazing discoveries.
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James Webb Space Telescope May Have Spotted the Universe’s First Stars, Astronomers Say
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected a distant, metal-poor galaxy whose unusually massive, ultraviolet-bright stars match the expected signatures of Population III — the universe’s first stars. Through the help of gravitational lensing and Webb’s infrared sensitivity, researchers observed light from just 800 million ...
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Webb Finds Phosphorus-Bearing Gas in an Ancient Brown Dwarf
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected phosphine (PH₃) in the atmosphere of the ancient brown dwarf Wolf 1130C, about 54 light-years away in Cygnus. This marks the first confirmed detection of a phosphorus-bearing gas in such a metal-poor object. The finding surprises astronomers, as phosphine was previously undetected in similar brown ...
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Archaeologists Discover Hidden Voids In Egypt's Pyramid Of Menkaure
Christian Grosse, professor of non-destructive testing at TUM, explained that following the discovery of an unknown chamber in the Khufu Pyramid in 2023, ScanPyramids has made another important discovery at Giza.
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Scientists Recreate Cosmic ‘Fireballs’ in Lab to Solve Mystery of Missing Gamma Rays
Scientists recreated cosmic plasma beams at CERN to study why certain gamma rays vanish in space. The results showed the beams remain stable, suggesting ancient intergalactic magnetic fields, not beam collapse, hide the signals. The discovery provides new insight into cosmic jets and the universe’s earliest magnetic traces.
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Archaeologists Find 1,200-Year-Old Bread With Jesus Christ's Face
Photographs released by officials show a blackened loaf with a faint yet recognisable image of Jesus Christ etched on its surface.
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Chang’e-6 Lunar Samples Reveal Water-Rich Asteroid Fragments
Analysis of Chang’e-6 lunar dust uncovered microscopic carbonaceous chondrite fragments—evidence of water-bearing asteroids that once struck the Moon. The discovery indicates a far greater delivery of water and organics to Earth and the Moon than thought, helping scientists refine theories about the solar system’s early volatile sources.
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Astronomers Detect Heavy Water in Planet-Forming Disk Around Young Star
Scientists have detected heavy water in the planet-forming disk around young star V883 Orionis, confirming the water existed long before the star formed. The discovery, made using ALMA, shows that water’s origins trace back to ancient interstellar clouds, linking molecular gas, comets, and planetary systems across billions of years.
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Ancient Workshop In Georgia May Hold Clues To Origins Of The Iron Age
Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery at the 3,000-year-old Kvemo Bolnisi site in southern Georgia, shedding new light on the origins of the Iron Age.
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Iceland Plume Discovery Reveals Ancient Volcanic Funnels Across North Atlantic
Sixty million years ago, Iceland’s deep plume fueled massive eruptions across the North Atlantic. Cambridge scientists discovered hidden weak zones in Earth’s crust that funneled the plume’s heat, explaining volcanic fields like the Giant’s Causeway. These ancient scars still shape today’s earthquakes and geothermal energy across Britain ...
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Spots Ancient Coral-Like Rock on Mars
On July 24, 2025, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured an image of a small, coral-shaped rock in Gale Crater using its ChemCam Remote Micro Imager. The light-colored, 1-inch (2.5 cm) formation likely formed billions of years ago when mineral-rich water seeped into tiny fractures in the rock, leaving behind hardened mineral veins after evaporation...
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Rare 1,000-Year-Old Ceremonial Heads, Ancient Structures Found In Peru
The discoveries were made at the Ollape site in the Amazonian district of La Jalca in an area where the Chachapoyas civilization, or "Warriors of the Clouds," developed between 900 and 1,450 AD.
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Study Reveals Ancient 26-Foot Shark Lived 115 Million Years Ago, Before Megalodon
This discovery highlights the enormous size and predatory dominance of ancient sharks and provides scientists with a new perspective on the early evolution of the ancestors of today's great white sharks.
-
New Discovery Rewrites Timeline Of When Humans Learned To Make Fire
A major archaeological discovery in Suffolk shows that early Neanderthals were making fire about 400,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of fire mastery and reshaping understanding of human evolution.
-
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Finds Metal-Rich Rock on Mars: What You Need to Know
NASA’s Perseverance rover has identified Phippsaksla, a sculpted, metal-rich boulder in Jezero Crater with an unusually high iron-nickel composition. The rock’s chemistry strongly suggests it is a meteorite formed elsewhere in the solar system. Its presence within impact-shaped terrain offers fresh clues about ancient asteroids and helps scient...
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Scientists Discover 40,000-Year-Old RNA In Frozen Woolly Mammoth
To search for even older RNA, Pour and his team focused on the permafrost regions of Siberia, where thawing soil has yielded many amazing discoveries.
-
James Webb Space Telescope May Have Spotted the Universe’s First Stars, Astronomers Say
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected a distant, metal-poor galaxy whose unusually massive, ultraviolet-bright stars match the expected signatures of Population III — the universe’s first stars. Through the help of gravitational lensing and Webb’s infrared sensitivity, researchers observed light from just 800 million ...
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Webb Finds Phosphorus-Bearing Gas in an Ancient Brown Dwarf
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected phosphine (PH₃) in the atmosphere of the ancient brown dwarf Wolf 1130C, about 54 light-years away in Cygnus. This marks the first confirmed detection of a phosphorus-bearing gas in such a metal-poor object. The finding surprises astronomers, as phosphine was previously undetected in similar brown ...
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Archaeologists Discover Hidden Voids In Egypt's Pyramid Of Menkaure
Christian Grosse, professor of non-destructive testing at TUM, explained that following the discovery of an unknown chamber in the Khufu Pyramid in 2023, ScanPyramids has made another important discovery at Giza.
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Scientists Recreate Cosmic ‘Fireballs’ in Lab to Solve Mystery of Missing Gamma Rays
Scientists recreated cosmic plasma beams at CERN to study why certain gamma rays vanish in space. The results showed the beams remain stable, suggesting ancient intergalactic magnetic fields, not beam collapse, hide the signals. The discovery provides new insight into cosmic jets and the universe’s earliest magnetic traces.
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Archaeologists Find 1,200-Year-Old Bread With Jesus Christ's Face
Photographs released by officials show a blackened loaf with a faint yet recognisable image of Jesus Christ etched on its surface.
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Chang’e-6 Lunar Samples Reveal Water-Rich Asteroid Fragments
Analysis of Chang’e-6 lunar dust uncovered microscopic carbonaceous chondrite fragments—evidence of water-bearing asteroids that once struck the Moon. The discovery indicates a far greater delivery of water and organics to Earth and the Moon than thought, helping scientists refine theories about the solar system’s early volatile sources.
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Astronomers Detect Heavy Water in Planet-Forming Disk Around Young Star
Scientists have detected heavy water in the planet-forming disk around young star V883 Orionis, confirming the water existed long before the star formed. The discovery, made using ALMA, shows that water’s origins trace back to ancient interstellar clouds, linking molecular gas, comets, and planetary systems across billions of years.
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Ancient Workshop In Georgia May Hold Clues To Origins Of The Iron Age
Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery at the 3,000-year-old Kvemo Bolnisi site in southern Georgia, shedding new light on the origins of the Iron Age.
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Iceland Plume Discovery Reveals Ancient Volcanic Funnels Across North Atlantic
Sixty million years ago, Iceland’s deep plume fueled massive eruptions across the North Atlantic. Cambridge scientists discovered hidden weak zones in Earth’s crust that funneled the plume’s heat, explaining volcanic fields like the Giant’s Causeway. These ancient scars still shape today’s earthquakes and geothermal energy across Britain ...
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Spots Ancient Coral-Like Rock on Mars
On July 24, 2025, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured an image of a small, coral-shaped rock in Gale Crater using its ChemCam Remote Micro Imager. The light-colored, 1-inch (2.5 cm) formation likely formed billions of years ago when mineral-rich water seeped into tiny fractures in the rock, leaving behind hardened mineral veins after evaporation...
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Rare 1,000-Year-Old Ceremonial Heads, Ancient Structures Found In Peru
The discoveries were made at the Ollape site in the Amazonian district of La Jalca in an area where the Chachapoyas civilization, or "Warriors of the Clouds," developed between 900 and 1,450 AD.
