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For the first time, a physicist has experimentally watched time emerge from within an isolated quantum system — by creating a “mini-universe.” This bizarre experiment raises an intriguing question: If…
Archaeologists in Italy have unearthed the royal tomb of a pre-Roman “warrior-prince” along with the remains of his chariot and weapons. The tomb was just one part of an extensive…
QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Great Bahama Bank, Bahamas [23.547188707, -76.46352937]What’s in the photo? Submerged sandbanks and seagrass beds in shallow waterWhich satellite took the photo? Landsat 8When was it taken?…
Deep in a limestone cave on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, archaeologists have uncovered evidence that Neanderthals and the modern humans who moved in later left behind surprisingly similar traces of their…
Scientists say they have built a “synthetic cell” that can eat, grow and divide in a way that’s remarkably similar to living cells.The research, released to the preprint database bioRxiv…
Scientists uncovered a link between mild heart trouble and microscopic signs of brain damage that may raise the risk of memory problems down the line.The new study, published Monday (July…
Scientists have found evidence that gravitational waves from a spectacular black hole collision carry signals from the very edge of the newly formed black hole. If confirmed by future observations,…
The patient: A 63-year-old woman in MassachusettsThe symptoms: The patient went to the emergency department after experiencing nausea and vomiting for about a month, along with decreased appetite. She told…
A simple method to thicken Arctic sea ice has shown promising results in its very first field experiment, performed in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada.Researchers are considering several controversial geoengineering techniques…
The Stargazer figurine was carved from marble around 5,000 years ago.(Image credit: Cleveland Museum of Art / Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; John L. Severance Fund 1993.165 (Public Domain))QUICK FACTSName:…