⌛ Medieval glasses lay under the library for centuries
👉 Coincidence does not exist. Archaeologists found beneath the famous University of Oxford a nearly intact reading stone… from the Middle Ages! This magnifying glas...
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⌛ Dice are as old as humanity
👉 People were already playing games of chance 12,000 years ago. Archaeologists in North America recently discovered that old – previously found – objects were actually dice. These games hel...
🔗 whyrwe.com/@26/0411-1151
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⌛ 'Brand new' Roman-Egyptian pleasure yacht discovered
👉 Archaeologists near Alexandria (Egypt) have (figuratively) brought a Roman-Egyptian pleasure yacht from the first century to the surface. The ship was large, luxu...
🔗 whyrwe.com/@25/1208-1534?y=26
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🚀 Amateur astronomer discovers (dwarf) galaxy
👉 Astronomers have discovered a new dwarf galaxy near Andromeda, and it's called (drumroll) Andromeda XXXVI. It's an extremely old – and small – galaxy with a lot of dark m...
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⌛ This ancient city is coming back to life!
👉 The ancient city of Sardis in Turkey has been under excavation since 1958. Years of collaboration between universities have resulted in a wealth of valuable knowledge. In 20...
🔗 whyrwe.com/@25/1029-1343?y=26
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🧪 A bag made of T-Rex leather? It's (almost) possible!
👉 A recently unveiled luxury bag appears to be made of T-Rex leather, but it's not actually real. Scientists are using fossil "dino" proteins to create an entirely...
🔗 whyrwe.com/@26/0407-2009
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⌛ Chess broke through medieval boundaries
👉 The game chess offered a place in the Middle Ages where people were equal. Images and stories now show players from different cultures meeting each other around the board. The...
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🧪 A spider web as the ultimate hunting weapon
👉 Spiders sometimes use their web like a kind of lasso or catapult to catch their prey. They first tighten the web and then suddenly release it for an ultra-fast attack. At...
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🧪 Ancient carbon escapes from the polar region
👉 Melting permafrost in Alaska is releasing centuries-old carbon that flows back toward the ocean through rivers. This process is further intensified because the thawing p...
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🧪 Japanese moths do "it" secretly (at night)
👉 Some prefer to do "it" during the day, others in the afternoon. But a Japanese moth prefers the nighttime. And for a reason, because the plant that is pollinated by them a...
🔗 whyrwe.com/@26/0404-1726
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⌛ Ancient Egyptian drill turns out to be a classic masterpiece
👉 A 5,300-year-old drill from Egypt turns out to be much more advanced in its construction than previously thought. Researchers discovered that it is specif...
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🚀 Black holes eat stars for breakfast
👉 Black holes have a major influence, even far beyond their own galaxy. Their radiation can suppress star formation in entirely different galaxies and even cause them to disappear....
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🧪 First dogs in Europe turn out to be much older
👉 Studies of very old DNA show that dogs were already living in Europe long before agriculture was introduced. They spread – together with humans – across the continent...
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⌛ Rock art shows Tasmanian animals
👉 New rock art in Australia shows Tasmanian tigers and matching devils. Some of the images may be less than a thousand years old. And that in turn suggests that the animals lived on th...
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⌛ Codex Gigas: the devil's bible? 📖
👉 The Codex Gigas is the largest medieval book in the world and contains many different texts. The manuscript was created in Bohemia and later taken by Sweden as war loot. A striking...
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🧪 Our ice seas are full of (hidden) life!
👉 Scientists have discovered numerous unknown microbes in the Southern Ocean. Many of their genes appear to be unique and – logically – have never been observed before, let alo...
🔗 whyrwe.com/@26/0330-1251
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⌛ 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...
🔗 whyrwe.com/@26/0329-2014
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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...
🔗 whyrwe.com/@26/0328-1458
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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...
🔗 whyrwe.com/@26/0326-1315
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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...
🔗 whyrwe.com/@26/0325-1333
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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...
🔗 whyrwe.com/@26/0324-1913
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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...
🔗 whyrwe.com/@26/0323-2038
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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...
🔗 whyrwe.com/@26/0322-2214
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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...
🔗 whyrwe.com/@26/0321-1752
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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...
🔗 whyrwe.com/@26/0319-0840
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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...
🔗 whyrwe.com/@25/0815-1633
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