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After detecting the unusually bright signal, astronomers checked observations from another telescope, and found an unexpected ...

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To test what was going on, Hanke and colleagues designed three computer simulations: one simulated the open sea, with dots ...

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To do so, you simply draw an imaginary line from the top point of the crescent, past the bottom point of the crescent, and down until it hits the horizon. In the Northern Hemisphere the point where ...

Legend has it that Giant’s Causeway (Clochán an Aifir in Irish) was built by the Irish giant Finn McCool, also known as Fionn ...

A fter silently lurking for almost 50 years, a prion disease erupted in the brain of a woman in the US, triggering a rapid ...

Researchers have broken the record for the world's first successful petabit-class transmission over more than 1,000 ...

The potentially ruinous species are munching their way through the state – and it turns out they’re getting it on while ...

There are just four villages in the Peruvian Andes where khipus are kept, though the knowledge of how to read them was lost ...