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2,000-year-old gold ring holds clue about lavish cremation burial unearthed in France

A lavish cremation tomb found in France may point to funeral rites for an adolescent boy.

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A fossilized foot found 15 years ago belonged to enigmatic human relative that lived alongside Lucy, scientists say

Freshly unearthed jaw bones and teeth that were found close to a previously discovered foot suggest human relatives tried several ways of walking before honing in on one strategy.

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Popular AI chatbots have an alarming encryption flaw — meaning hackers may have easily intercepted messages

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a critical vulnerability in the architecture of large language models underpinning generative AI, but how dangerous is this flaw?

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Chinese particle detector tests 'portal to physics beyond the Standard Model' — with outstanding results

Deep underground in southern China, there is a 20,000-ton tank of liquid that can detect neutrinos. Named JUNO, the detector's first results are in — and they're very promising.

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Diagnostic dilemma: A man's muscles looked strangely deformed. Doctors found they were leaking calcium into his blood.

A man showed up to the hospital with vomiting, weakness, failing kidneys and sky-high calcium. The culprit was a muscle-enhancing oil he injected into his chest and arms years ago.

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Most modern dogs have wolf DNA from relatively recent interbreeding. Here's which breeds are the most and least 'wolfish.'

About two-thirds of modern dog breeds carry some wolf ancestry introduced within the past few thousand years.

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How to watch 'Prehistoric Planet' – Streaming details as new season 'Ice Age' lands on Apple TV

Here’s how to watch Prehistoric Planet, including the upcoming season 'Ice Age', as well as everything you need to know about Apple TV+’s hit documentary series.

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Two stars spiraling toward catastrophe are putting Einstein's gravity to the test

The two stars in the nearby system ZTF J2130 are spiraling toward a catastrophic supernova. In the meantime, scientists are using the pair's slow orbital decay to put Einstein's theory of gravity to the test.

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RIP 'other ATLAS': Watch the doomed comet explode into pieces in incredible new images

Stunning new photos show the pieces of the "other ATLAS," C/2025 K1, breaking apart in space after the golden comet suddenly exploded earlier this month.

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'Like a sudden bomb': See photos from space of Ethiopian volcano erupting for first time in 12,000 years

Hayli Gubbi, a shield volcano in northern Ethiopia, erupted for several hours on the morning of Sunday, Nov. 23 — the first eruption since the start of the Holocene.

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Marooned no more! Stranded Chinese astronauts finally have a way home following launch of unmanned 'lifeboat'

China has launched an unmanned "lifeboat" to the Tiangong space station, ending a month-long fiasco. The spacecraft will eventually ferry home the marooned Shenzhou-21 crew, who have been stuck without a return capsule for over a week.

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Wolf stealing underwater crab traps caught on camera for the first time — signalling 'new dimension' in their behavior

A video has revealed never-before-seen behaviors in wolves that could mark the first case of tool use in a wild member of the wolf and dog family — and it was all for some crab bait.

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Sistema Ox Bel Ha: A vast hidden system that's the longest underwater cave in the world

This incredible submerged cave network is the longest of its kind in the world and plays a vital role in the region.

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'I had never seen a skull like this before': Medieval Spanish knight who died in battle had a rare genetic condition, study finds

The extremely long skull of a medieval knight points to an underlying genetic condition.

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Ruptures from 'silent' earthquakes deep in Earth's crust can heal themselves within hours

Researchers re-created the conditions deep inside the Cascadia subduction zone and found that fractured rocks can repair themselves during, or just hours after, slow-motion earthquakes.

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Twin tornadoes tear perfectly parallel tracks through Mississippi during deadly 'superstorm' — Earth from space

A satellite photo from March shows a pair of parallel tornado tracks in Mississippi, leftover from a deadly storm system that spawned over 100 twisters in more than a dozen U.S. states.

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Study links GLP-1 use to some pregnancy risks — but the research has key caveats

A new study hints that pregnant people who have previously taken drugs like Ozempic may face a higher risk of certain poor pregnancy outcomes. But more studies are needed to understand the finding.

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James Webb telescope may have discovered the earliest, most distant supermassive black hole ever seen

The James Webb telescope may have detected the universe's earliest and most distant known black hole at the heart of galaxy GHZ2, revealing how the first black holes grew just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.

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Woolly mammoths fight off attacking saber-toothed cats in stunning new 'Prehistoric Planet' clip

A clip from the upcoming series "Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age" shows how iconic ice age creatures adapted to their changing environment as temperatures rose and ice sheets started to melt.

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Neanderthals cannibalized 'outsider' women and children 45,000 years ago at cave in Belgium

Fragmented Neanderthal bones discovered in a cave in Belgium show that one group cannibalized the women and children of another group.

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A decade-long chimp war ended in a baby boom for the victors, scientists discover

A deadly conflict between rival groups of chimpanzees in Uganda led to comprehensive victory and a bounty of territory and food — does it show why humans go to war?

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Ancient Egyptian pharaoh moved another ruler's body and stole his tomb, hundreds of funerary figurines suggest

Archaeologists have discovered 225 shabtis — figurines meant to work for the deceased in the afterlife — in a pharaoh's tomb.

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Has America's obesity rate plateaued?

Some recent national numbers suggest the obesity rate has plateaued or even declined. Experts are skeptical.

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Scientists say they've eliminated a major AI bottleneck — now they can process calculations 'at the speed of light'

A new architecture replaces traditional bottlenecks with a passive, single-shot light-speed operation that could become the foundational hardware for AGI, scientists argue.

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Pectoral with coins: 'One of the most intricate pieces of gold jewelry to survive from the mid-sixth century'

This sixth-century pectoral comprises 14 Byzantine gold coins and a gold disc gathered over two centuries.

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