For five months in mid-2017, Emily Mason did the same thing every day. Arriving at her office at …
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After drawing both praise and skepticism, the team of astronomers who discovered NGC 1052-DF2 — the very first …
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ChinaMysteries
Science Sheds Light on Mystery of Terracotta Army Weapons
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesThe chrome plating on the Terracotta Army weapons made of bronze — once thought to be the earliest …
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Environment
Damaging Sichuan Earthquakes Now Linked to Fracking Operations
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesTwo moderate-sized earthquakes that struck the southern Sichuan Province of China last December and January were probably caused …
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Archaeologists at the University of Cincinnati used the latest technology to find evidence suggesting ancient Maya people grew …
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Astronomers found a pulsar hurtling through space at nearly 2.5 million miles per hour — so fast it …
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Space
Giant ‘Chimneys’ Are Exhaust Vents for Energies Produced by Milky Way
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesThe center of our galaxy is a frenzy of activity. A behemoth black hole — 4 million times …
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Space
NASA Spacecraft May Have Explored the Edges of an Early Mars Sea in 1997
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesNASA’s first rover mission to Mars, the Pathfinder, imaged an extraterrestrial marine spillover landscape 22 years ago, according …
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Environment
A Wallaby the Size of a Dinosaur Found in the Antarctic Rift Valley
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesA new wallaby-sized herbivorous dinosaur has been identified from five fossilized upper jaws in 125 million-year-old rocks from …
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The sea bed in the deep ocean during the Cambrian period was thought to have been inhospitable to …