Bronze Age sword discovered in an Italian lake is still sharp after 3,300 years
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NASA’s Oldest Martian Spacecraft Have Been Running for Decades. Here’s How
NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft has been operating for so long, it can rent a car without any fees. The spacecraft…
Milky Way’s Central Black Hole is Surrounded by Metal-Rich Gas, Webb Reveals
The enrichment in metals (any element heavier than hydrogen and helium, including carbon, oxygen, iron and gold) likely came from…
‘Treble Clef’ Radio Glow Reveals Galaxy Cluster Hiding behind Milky Way
VLSS J0318.9+5755, a strange, musical-note-shaped radio source hiding behind the Milky Way’s dusty disk, has turned out to be the…
‘Most people can’t handle driving in 2 dimensions let alone 3’: Readers respond to our poll about flying cars
Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Last week, Tesla unveiled a…
Small Raptors Likely Feasted on Fallen Tyrannosaur, Fossil Bite Marks Suggest
Tyrannosaurs sit at the top of the food chain in the popular imagination, but a newly described fossil from Alberta,…
Jurassic Fossil Hints that Some Early Birds Were Flightless
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of early bird from the Late Jurassic Zhenghe Fauna of southeastern China.…
Seaweed Compounds Show Promise against Cell Damage
Fucoidans — compounds found in the cell walls of brown seaweed — could one day help treat diseases driven by…
Hubble Space Telescope Spots Dusty Spiral Galaxy: NGC 1827
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a new view of NGC 1827, an intermediate spiral galaxy seen…
Why AI Isn’t Ready to Tackle Our Convoluted Genomes
Some enhancers are, as you’d expect, close to the genes they regulate, or even sit on DNA inside a gene.…