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A Woman Went for a Casual Walk—and Accidentally Discovered a One-in-a-Million Treasure
A ceramic pot turned into a jackpot for a woman on a walk in the Kutnohorsk Region of the Czech Republic. While out on a ...
A Construction Crew Was Renovating a Soccer Field—and Found the Bodies of 150 Ancient Roman Soldiers
When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, ...
Psychedelics Could Transform How We Sleep—Or If We Even Need It at All, New Theory Claims
Hallucinogens like DMT, psilocin, and LSD might rewrite the rules of sleep, blurring the line between dreams and reality.
An Endangered Tortoise Just Became a First-Time Mom. She's 100 Years Old.
Even more remarkably, Mommy is the oldest first-time parent of her species, according to a press release from the zoo. Mommy ...
Decoding Animal Minds Could Reveal the Purpose of Consciousness, Scientists Say
Scientists say these are all markers of animal consciousness, a sign that animals, from Labrador retrievers to cuttlefish to ...
The 5 Best Daypacks We Recommend to Comfortably Carry All Your Gear
For most day hikers, a frameless pack is a fine choice. Because it uses less material than an internal frame pack, it is ...
Consciousness Isn’t Just in Your Head—It May Be Altering Reality Itself, Scientists Say
The question of, “What is consciousness?” is no longer exclusively the realm of ancient philosophers and dorm-room debaters.
Mathematicians Wrote a Proof for a 100-Year-Old Problem—and May Have Just Changed Geometry
The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch ...
A College Student Accidentally Broke the Laws of Thermodynamics
As Homer Simpson once famously phrased, “ in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics ,” but a new and completely ...
A Student Had a Hunch About a Stone Circle. Turns Out a 3,700-Year-Old Ritual Site Was Beneath It.
A six-foot-tall standing ceremonial stone in a Derbyshire forest had one archaeology enthusiast searching for more. Well, ...
A Man Spent 6 Years Searching the Same Farm—and Finally Discovered a 1,900-Year-Old Roman Treasure
A metal detectorist from England spent six years searching a single field before locating a rare Roman coin from 69 A.D. The ...
Physicists Think They’ve Finally Seen Evidence of String Theory
Last month, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collective reported that dark energy is evolving—specifically ...