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No one knows for sure when steel was invented, but some of the earliest examples crop up in the first millennium B.C. in Central and South Asia.

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3 remarkable spiders: A vegetarian, a vampire and a predator that uses 'pincer, fork and key'

In this extract from "The Lives of Spiders: A Natural History of the World's Spiders," author Ximena Nelson examines three species of spider with unusual diets — plants, blood and pillbugs.

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Science news this week: Spiders on Mars and an ancient Egyptian sword

Sept. 21, 2024: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

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Humans have long been a 'geophysical force on a planetary scale,' says philosopher Timothy Morton. That's neither good nor bad.

The person dubbed "the prophet of the Anthropocene" talks to Live Science about how they got this title, what the Anthropocene means, and why we need to stop trying to define when it started and accept that we've been in it for millennia.

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Drinking wastewater, building an island from scratch and creating an urban forest: 3 bold ways cities are already adapting to climate change

Climate change will fundamentally challenge the world's urban centers. Three cities — San Diego, Milan and Jakarta — offer lessons for how to adapt to a warming planet.

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Men have a daily hormone cycle — and it's synced to their brains shrinking from morning to night

A month-long study of a man's brain revealed that its volume consistently shrunk over the course of each day and then reset overnight.

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'All it takes is a predator to learn that children are easier prey': Why India's 'wolf' attacks may not be what they seem

Indian authorities believe wolf attacks have killed 10 people in the Bahraich region of Uttar Pradesh in recent months, as fear and confusion grips local villages.

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Fossils from lush 53 million-year-old South Pole rainforest discovered in Tasmania

Researchers have identified 12 ancestral plant species from an early Eocene fossil assemblage in Tasmania that once formed part of a giant, circumpolar forest.

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Rainbow swamp: The flooded forest in Virginia that puts on a magical light show every winter

Every winter, when sunlight hits at the right angle, visitors to Virginia's First Landing State Park are treated to a mesmerizing rainbow light show courtesy of the park's bald cypress swamp.

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Stephen Hawking's black hole radiation paradox could finally be solved — if black holes aren't what they seem

New research suggests that black holes may actually be "frozen stars," bizarre quantum objects that lack a singularity and an event horizon, potentially solving some of the biggest paradoxes in black hole physics.

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What is artificial general intelligence (AGI)?

AI development is accelerating — with some scientists suggesting machines will be more intelligent than the smartest humans within the next few years.

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Simple trick could lower city temperatures 3.6 F, London study suggests

Painting city roofs white could lower the temperature in London dramatically on the hottest days, new research suggests.

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People in Scandinavia may have used boats made of animal skins to hunt and trade 5,000 years ago

The people who created the Pitted Ware Culture may have used seal hides to build boats.

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Cocaine found in mummified brains reveal that New World drug came to Italy 200 years earlier than thought

Researchers unexpectedly found traces of cocaine in the mummified brain tissue of 17th-century people buried in a crypt in Milan.

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Creepy 'biotwang' noises coming from the Mariana Trench finally explained after 10 years

A new study has revealed the exact origin of the Pacific Ocean's mysterious "biotwang" noises, which were first detected by underwater surveys near the Mariana Trench in 2014.

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Man buried with large stones on his chest to prevent him from 'rising from the grave' unearthed in Germany

Archaeologists in Germany have unearthed a "revenant" grave where a man was buried with large stones on his chest to prevent him from rising from the dead.

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Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' contains surprisingly accurate physics — suggesting he understood the hidden 'dynamism of the sky'

A new analysis of the brushstrokes and colors in Vincent van Gogh's famous painting Starry Night reveals a striking similarity to "hidden turbulence" in Earth's atmosphere, suggesting the iconic artist had a surprisingly detailed understanding of natural processes.

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Earth's outer core may hold a hidden 'doughnut'

A newly discovered doughnut shape in Earth's outer core may reveal elements that help drive the formation of the planet's magnetic field.

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Scientist who discovered body's 'fire alarm' against invading bacteria wins $250,000 Lasker prize

One of this year's coveted Lasker Awards has gone to Zhijian "James" Chen, a scientist behind a key immune-system discovery.

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Playing with fire: How VR is being used to train the next generation of firefighters

Can VR training for first responders replicate the heat, the smoke and the stress of handling a real blaze?

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Record-breaking fires engulf South America, bringing black rain, green rivers and toxic air to the continent

The Amazon fires, fueled by severe drought exacerbated by climate change, have created a toxic smoke cloud spanning about 4 million square miles — an area larger than the entire United States.

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'What is normal today may not be normal in a year's time': Dr. Dinesh Bhugra on the idea of 'normal' in psychiatry

Live Science spoke with leading psychiatrist Dr. Dinesh Bhugra ahead of his appearance at the HowTheLightGetsIn festival in London.

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Biggest black hole jets ever seen are as long as 140 Milky Ways

The largest-ever black hole jets ever seen hint that these cosmic monsters may play an even more significant role in shaping galaxies than previously thought.

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What is a quantum bit (qubit)?

Qubits are the fundamental building blocks of quantum computers — and, when fitted into these machines — rely on the weird laws of quantum mechanics to process calculations in parallel.

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80 million-year-old sea monster jaws filled with giant globular teeth for crushing prey discovered in Texas

Rare fossils of the mosasaur Globidens alabamaensis — a 20 foot predator with strange, mushroom-shaped teeth — unearthed in northeastern Texas.

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