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Strange green spots on Mars found by NASA's Perseverance...
NASA's Perseverance rover found strange green spots in Martian rock, potentially indicating a past interaction with liquid water.
Iron Age woman was buried with a knife stuck into her grave....
At an Iron Age cemetery in Sweden, archaeologists discovered an unusual grave of a woman interred with an iron folding knife stuck...
How many weeks are there in a year?
We take our timekeeping rules for granted, but the history of these rules is long and complex.
'Unique' gold offering to god of war discovered at Roman...
An excavation at a Roman fortress in the country of Georgia has revealed a gold offering to a god of war, a colorful mosaic and other...
Were the Vikings really that violent?
The Vikings' reputation for bloodlust compared to other medieval fighters may have been exaggerated over the years.
Space photo of the week: Hubble spies a 'cannonball galaxy'...
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spiral galaxy under the "ram pressure" inside a massive cluster of galaxies.
A meteorite 100 times bigger than the dinosaur-killing...
On a young Earth, giant meteors might have been a harbinger of life, not death.
New memory chip controlled by light and magnets could one...
A new type of ultrafast memory uses optical signals and magnets to efficiently process and store data.
