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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 ...
Purple Isn’t Real, Science Says. Your Brain Is Just Making It Up.
Purple is a combination of wavelengths from opposite extremes of the spectrum, which technically deosn’t make any sense, but ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
A Queen Bee Lives 20 Times Longer Than Her Workers. Scientists Want to Steal Her Secrets For Humanity.
Queens eat royal jelly, which has antioxidants and less sugar than the honey tkhat workers eat. This is thought to be part of the reasons queens outlive worker bees. The gut bacteria of queen bees are ...
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 ...
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 ...
My First Impressions of the Traeger Woodridge Pro
The built-in fold-up shelf is handy and large. These prep spaces on grills are usually quite small and feel like any slight ...
Scientists Discovered 7,000-Year-Old Mummies in the Desert That Don’t Share DNA With Modern Humans
Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...