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Archaeology
Bringing a Shark to a Knife Fight: 7,000-Year-Old Shark-Tooth Knives Discovered in Indonesia
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesExcavations on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi have uncovered two unique and deadly artifacts dating back some 7,000 …
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Archaeology
Did First Nations Australians Domesticate Dingoes? They Certainly Buried Them With Great Care
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesDingoes are an iconic Australian wild animal with close links to First Nations Australians throughout the mainland. Yet …
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Archaeology
Stone Age Herders Transported Heavy Rock Tools to Grind Animal Bones, Plants, and Pigments
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesAbout 7,000 years ago, a small group of Stone Age people sat around a fire, next to a …
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Archaeology
Holes in Baby Dinosaur Bones Show How Football-Sized Hatchlings Grew to 3-Ton Teens
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesDespite their public image as torpid, lumbering creatures, many dinosaurs were evidently warm-blooded, highly active animals, capable of …
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Space
How Gravity Affects Antimatter and What It Means for Understanding the Universe
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesA substance called antimatter is at the heart of one of the greatest mysteries of the universe. We …
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Space
Astronomers Have Discovered a Rare ‘Polar Ring Galaxy’ Wrapped in a Huge Ribbon of Hydrogen
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesA galaxy can come in many shapes and sizes, from giant, slowly rotating ovals and fast-whirling spiral disks …
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Space
4.5 Billion-Year-Old Sahara Space Rock Upends Assumptions About the Early Solar System
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesIn May 2020, some unusual rocks containing distinctive greenish crystals were found in the Erg Chech sand sea, …
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Technology
AI Systems Have Learned How to Deceive Humans: What Does That Mean for Our Future?
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesArtificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton made headlines earlier this year when he raised concerns about the capabilities of …
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Space
A New Theory Suggests the Universe Has Been Around Twice as Long as Believed
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesEarly universe observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) cannot be explained by current cosmological models. These …