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400-year-old 'vampire child' found buried with its foot...
The child was buried face-down and with an iron padlock on its foot.
Why Venus is now a slim crescent and will disappear from...
The second planet from the sun is approaching 'inferior conjunction' as it swaps from being the 'Evening Star' to the 'Morning Star,'...
What is penicillin, and how was it discovered?
Discovered by sheer accident in the late 1920s, penicillin was the world's first antibiotic.
'Hyper-synchronized' brain waves may explain why different...
Despite acting on different receptors, psychedelics induce similar "waves" of synchronized electrical activity across the rat brain,...
30 lost burials archaeologists are still searching for
The burials of famous people provide enduring archaeological mysteries. Here are 30 of the most acclaimed "lost" tombs.
Scientists uncover hidden math that governs genetic mutations
The ability of a gene to keep functioning despite mutations shows a surprising link to fundamental math.
240 million-year-old fossil of salamander-like creature...
A retired chicken farmer found the rocks in the mid-1990s and donated it to the Australian Museum, where researchers have now named...
Spooky, subterranean daddy longlegs with ghostly pale bodies...
Researchers believe that one of the new species may be a relic from an ancient ecosystem in Australia.
