Japan reveals a new official name for ‘cruelly hot’ days ‘Kokushobi’ will be used in weather forecasts to warn that extreme heat is on the way.

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"Bathtub Ring" is New Evidence for an Ancient Ocean on Mars Caltech researchers identify geomorphological signatures of a long-gone ocean on Mars

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Black hole jets ‘dance’ in the wind from a massive companion star Astronomers have discovered stellar winds can cause black hole jets to change direction – just like wind on Earth can blow around the water in a fountain.

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Archaeologists to reveal secrets of castle’s hidden cave once home to ancient hippo The cave is rapidly emerging as one of the most important prehistoric archives in Britain, researchers say

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Shakespeare's 'missing' London house mapped with new discovery | King's College London The exact location of William Shakespeare’s only London property can now be pinpointed to a quiet Blackfriars street, thanks to the discovery of a previously unknown floorplan.

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Here's What Scientists Found When They Cooked Up Their Own 'Mercury Rocks' Sulfur on Mercury was as important to the planet's formation as oxygen was to Earth's evolution, the study suggests.

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Not Quantum, Not Classical: This Light-Based Computer Is Something Else Entirely While it's no replacement for either computer, the new device is a powerful alternative for addressing some very practical challenges.

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Antarctic Expedition to 'Danger Zone' Accidentally Discovers Previously Uncharted Island Polar scientists thought it was a dirty iceberg at first.

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Alewife Garage Graffiti Gallery in Cambridge A neglected and disused parking garage ramp has become home street artists to share their art.

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Lost Warship From Battle of Copenhagen Found After 225 Years Within the shipwreck lay cannons, shoes, personal belongings, and bones of soldiers who went down with their ship.

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This Nobel Prize–Winning Tech Could Create Drinking Water From Air Anywhere on Earth The United Nations warns that nearly 75% of the world now lives in water-insecure regions, with billions facing shortages each year. But Nobel Prize–winning chemist, Omar M. Yaghi, has spent decades w...

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30 Unpublished Poems From Iconic Greek Philosopher Discovered in Cairo For over two millennia, the philosopher’s poetic work had largely been alluded to in the writings of others.

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Yeah so he is just going to keep doing the thing where we are in a constant state of uncertainty, confusion, stress, and tension because that is what abusive people do and the people who are in a position to address this are asleep at the switch.

It's TACO Tuesday, right? ... Right?

These rock-climbing fish can shimmy up a 50-foot waterfall New research from the Democratic Republic of Congo offers a behavioral and anatomical portrait of a species that can achieve surprising athletic feats.

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James Webb telescope captures star formation "factory" in fine detail Westerhaut 51 is the unassuming name of a vast "star factory" 17,000 light years from Earth. 350 light years across, it contains numerous O-type stars, the rarest on the main…

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A roll of the dice: How Native Americans shaped gambling and probability New research pushes the earliest known origins of dice, gambling and the exploration of randomness back six millennia and into North America.

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Art sculpture blows rainbow smoke donuts using mirrors and prisms Artist Adrien Miller uses mirrors and a prism to make incense smoke from a wall sculpture appear as spinning rainbow donuts.

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The Lincoln Highway (which I commenced listening to while driving on I-80 in Nebraska, very close to where the story itself starts) was utterly absorbing and entertaining.

What Language Is - a great example of McWhorter’s talent for writing about linguistics in an accessible and fun way.

Semiprecious Stones Coat Kathleen Ryan's Oversized Sculptures of Rotting Food Kathleen Ryan's larger-than-life sculptures of fruit and foods made of beads and semiprecious stones preserve decay.

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Unprecedented Images Show Sperm Whales Acting as Midwives to Help a Mom Give Birth The origins of whale midwifery might date back millions of years, the researchers say.

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Ancient Roman gemstone shows a grasshopper driving a butterfly-led chariot Roman jewelers created whimsical designs: this carnelian shows a grasshopper chariot led by butterflies, glowing in light.

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Legendary Viking ship replica that sailed to Norway receives new rigging A replica Viking ship called the Hjemkomst, built by a high school counselor in the 1970s, is starting to age and needs new sections of rope to stay standing. The ship sailed to Norway in the ‘80s, fu...

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New studies of old dogs help scientists understand where they came from Scientists are tracing back the history of dogs using the oldest genes from the species ever studied.

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Finally, Some Good News in the Fight Against Lyme Disease Scientists found that the experimental vaccine was more than 70% effective at preventing Lyme disease in a trial of nearly 10,000 volunteers.

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Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church D'Artagnan was killed during the Siege of Maastricht in 1673 and later immortalised in the stories of Alexandre Dumas.

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King Harold’s Legendary 200-Mile March ‘Never Happened,’ Study Suggests “Only a mad general would force his army to go through that before a battle.”

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Long Lost 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' Episode Finally Found Thanks to a garage sale, the 'Star Force' episode from the earliest days of 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' is online for all to see.

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I feel this, especially as a graduate of a high school with the initials LA which is in neither Louisiana nor Los Angeles