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A passage from Homer's Iliad discovered inside of a Roman-era Egyptian mummy
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The Simpsons reference that refutes one of history's greatest mathematicians
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NASA chief hints at campaign to make Pluto a planet again
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City birds more afraid of women than men, scientists have no idea why
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2 days ago
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How Do Food Manufacturers Calculate the Calorie Count of Packaged Foods? (2003)
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4 days ago
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The cause of heart disease is inflammation
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5 days ago
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The Paradox of Karl Popper
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5 days ago
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Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
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6 days ago
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Electric air taxis. Vertical Aerospace's VX4 just cleared a key test
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6 days ago
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Amateur armed with ChatGPT 'vibe-maths' a 60-year-old problem
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7 days ago
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Plants can 'hear' rain coming, spurring them into action
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9 days ago
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Mathematicians found out why waiting for the elevator takes forever
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9 days ago
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The way cocaine water pollution is changing salmon
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9 days ago
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A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory
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10 days ago
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Master of chaos wins $3M math prize for 'blowing up' equations
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10 days ago
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Some fish can tell when you're staring at them or their eggs
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10 days ago
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Why Birds Were the Only Dinosaurs to Survive Mass Extinction
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11 days ago
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Master of chaos wins $3M math prize for 'blowing up' equations
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12 days ago
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Colombia will euthanize Pablo Escobar's invasive 'cocaine hippos'
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12 days ago
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DARPA builds AI to investigate China's claim it can break military encryption
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Jimmc414
14 days ago
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It's Time to End the War on Salt (2011)
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14 days ago
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How the corpse flower came to be so weird
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17 days ago
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DNA forensics is transforming studies of ancient manuscripts
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18 days ago
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New metal with triple copper's heat conduction challenges fundamental physics
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18 days ago
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Trump administration proposes budget cuts to science
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ZunarJ5
19 days ago
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New metal with triple copper's heat conduction challenges fundamental physics
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20 days ago
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Two hundred chimpanzees are embroiled in a 'civil war'
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gscott
21 days ago
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NASA's Dragonfly mission will send a nuclear-powered flying drone to Titan
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Brajeshwar
21 days ago
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Scientists question CIA "Ghost Murmur" long-range heartbeat detection
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daniel_iversen
21 days ago
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How Artemis II is beaming back video from the moon with a laser system
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thinkingemote
22 days ago
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