⌛ Neanderthals turned out to be smart hunters
👉 Neanderthals appear to have hunted very actively and in a well-organized way on extremely large animals in (what is now) Germany. New evidence also shows that they butcher...
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🧪 Chimpanzee "sings" 🎶 while drumming! 🎵
👉 A chimpanzee in Japan appears to be able to make music using objects, producing sounds that strongly resemble singing. Researchers discovered that his rhythms were highly st...
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🧪 Ancient rhinoceros discovered in the polar ice
👉 A completely new species of rhinoceros has been discovered in the Canadian polar region. Important detail: the animal lived there millions of years ago, and in a much...
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⌛ World-famous musketeer (possibly) found
👉 A skeleton in the Dutch city of Maastricht may very well be that of the world-famous musketeer d'Artagnan. The discovery happened by chance after a church floor gave way and p...
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⌛ Giant Viking may have been an elite warrior
👉 A mass grave near Cambridge, England contains the remains of young men from the Viking Age. The bodies show signs of violence and possible execution. One man was exception...
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⌛ New ancient dinos popping up all over the world
👉 Scientists recently used new scans to better understand an old fossil. What did they find? They discovered a completely new, unique species. The animal lived undergrou...
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🧪 Twisted crystals lead to no effect at all
👉 Scientists tested a rather strange superconductor by applying deformation. However, the material barely responded to those adjustments. This contradicts earlier theories ab...
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⌛ Unique: four-wheeled wagons from the Iron Age!
👉 A more than exciting discovery in England has revealed quite a few new insights into the Iron Age. Archaeologists uncovered evidence of four-wheeled wagons, something t...
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🧪 "Bullshit bingo" officially mapped out
👉 Research shows that people who frequently use obligatory corporate jargon (colloquially known as "bullshit bingo") often score worse on logical thinking and decision-making. T...
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🧪 Dino's used sunlight to hatch their eggs
👉 The dinosaur oviraptor hatched her eggs in a unique way. She used both body heat and sunlight, according to new research in China. Because of the shape of the nest, they cou...
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🧪 The X-59: supersonic flight (without a boom)
👉 The X-59 is an experimental aircraft that can fly faster than sound, but without the accompanying loud boom. NASA is currently testing the aircraft step by step to impro...
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🚀 Hidden rivers on Mars become visible
👉 Mars appears to have been much older, but above all wetter, than previously thought. Beneath the surface lie many hidden river structures that are billions of years old. New rad...
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🚀 'SMILE' 🙂 ready for launch with Vega-C
👉 The SMILE satellite will soon be launched with a Vega-C rocket from French Guiana. The mission will then study how the sun influences Earth via the magnetosphere. Vega-C play...
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🚀 Sad, many stars are tilted!
👉 About a third of sun-like stars are tilted at birth relative to their planet-forming disk. That tilt is often determined by forces such as nearby stars or turbulence. This means many unu...
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⌛ Egyptian mummies with a smell...
👉 The smell of mummies turns out to contain a lot of information about their preservation. Scientists therefore took a closer look sniff, and discovered that this smell comes from emba...
🔗 whyrwe.com/@26/0317-2003
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🧪 Garni Gorge: natural symphony of stone 📖
👉 In Armenia lies the Garni Gorge, which is mainly known for its basalt columns that resemble real organ pipes. This natural formation is therefore called the Symphony of the...
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⌛ Unique sarcophagus from Roman Pannonia
👉 Archaeologists in Budapest have discovered a 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus. The grave was completely sealed off from the outside world and therefore remained exceptionally w...
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🧪 Perucetus: the largest animal on earth, ever! 📖
👉 The Perucetus was an enormous prehistoric whale from Peru that lived about 40 million years ago and the largest animal ever on earth. Its extremely heavy bones made...
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🧪 Young scientist reaches world top with AI
👉 A young Dutchman – with roots in both Suriname and India – has obtained his PhD cum laude at TU Delft. He did so with research that combines chemistry, chemical science, ma...
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⌛ Even the ancient Egyptians made mistakes...
👉 Archaeologists have discovered that an Egyptian artist corrected their mistakes. For example, they used white paint to make a jackal on ancient papyrus a lot slimmer after...
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🧪 Unique: living bridges in India
👉 Some bridges are tourist attractions. Just think of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, or the Swan in Rotterdam (Netherlands). Of a completely different order are the "living r...
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🧪 Bonobos and chimpanzees just as aggressive
👉 Research shows that bonobos are not less aggressive – or more peace-loving – than chimpanzees. The difference mainly lies in who uses the aggression and against whom. In c...
🔗 whyrwe.com/@26/0311-1923
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⌛ Chimpanzees also turn out to love crystals!
👉 Chimpanzees appear to have a strong interest in crystals. In experiments they clearly chose shiny stones over ordinary rocks and examined them more than attentively. Scien...
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🧪 Earth warming is accelerating faster than expected
👉 Scientists see that the warming of our planet has been accelerating since 2015. The originally used calculation models, on which much policy has been based, turned...
🔗 whyrwe.com/@26/0310-2151
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⌛ Ancient seafaring to Greenland (and beyond)
👉 Archaeologists have discovered that Paleo-Inuit people were already traveling to remote Greenlandic islands 4,500 years ago. On the Kitsissut islands they found hundreds o (...)
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⌛ When radioactivity was still considered healthy...
👉 At the beginning of the twentieth century – around 1915 – many people believed radioactivity was super healthy. Radioactive products such as Radithor and Doramad to (...)
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🧪 Dangerous robot from 1897 comes to life! 🤖
👉 A film from 1897 featuring a life-threatening robot-like doll has been rediscovered and restored. The work of film pioneer Georges Méliès had been missing for more than a (...)
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🚀 More than ten years ago: rover sees Earth
👉 More than ten years ago, the rover Curiosity took a photo from Mars showing both Earth and the Moon. The image was taken after sunset with the Mastcam camera and is the fir (...)
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🧪 Your smartphone can have painful consequences...
👉 Original: a recent study examined the effect of smartphone use on the toilet. People who use their phone in that spot often stay seated longer, which can cause quite (...)
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🚀 Ouch, heading an asteroid works!
👉 A NASA space probe deliberately crashed into asteroid Dimorphos in 2022. Researchers recently discovered that this actually changed the orbit of the entire Didymos system around the (...)
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