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Humans Once Hunted And Slaughtered Giant Sloths, 12,000-Year-Old Knife Shows
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Humans Once Hunted And Slaughtered Giant Sloths, 12,000-Year-Old Knife Shows
Nearly 12,600 years ago, during the Late Pleistocene era, a group of humans hunted and killed a giant ground sloth in Argentina, then left the animal's bones behind, along with their butchering knife.
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You've Heard of Black Holes. But 'White Holes' Might Just Break Your Puny Brain
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You've Heard of Black Holes. But 'White Holes' Might Just Break Your Puny Brain
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You've Heard of Black Holes. But 'White Holes' Might Just Break Your Puny Brain
Black holes might easily be the most compelling mysteries in the Universe. Thought to be the collapsed cores of dead stars, these strange objects are well known for one particular property - matter goes in; nothing comes out.
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Melting Glass Experiment Surprises Scientists by Defying a Law of Electricity
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Melting Glass Experiment Surprises Scientists by Defying a Law of Electricity
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Melting Glass Experiment Surprises Scientists by Defying a Law of Electricity
A team of scientists working with electrical currents and silicate glass have been left gobsmacked after the glass appeared to defy a basic physical law.
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Harvard Scientists Say Their Wild Plan to Dim The Sun Could Actually Work Safely
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Harvard Scientists Say Their Wild Plan to Dim The Sun Could Actually Work Safely
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Harvard Scientists Say Their Wild Plan to Dim The Sun Could Actually Work Safely
For something that's supposed to help save the planet, solar geoengineering sure has a lot of enemies.
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UK Put a Black Hole on a 50p Coin to Honour Stephen Hawking, And It Looks Stunning
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UK Put a Black Hole on a 50p Coin to Honour Stephen Hawking, And It Looks Stunning
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UK Put a Black Hole on a 50p Coin to Honour Stephen Hawking, And It Looks Stunning
It's been a year since the renowned and profoundly influential physicist Stephen Hawking passed away, and the Royal Mint has honoured his legacy in the form of a new commemorative 50 pence coin.
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NASA Has Released a Breathtaking New Hubble Image of Two Galaxies Smashing
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NASA Has Released a Breathtaking New Hubble Image of Two Galaxies Smashing
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NASA Has Released a Breathtaking New Hubble Image of Two Galaxies Smashing
Within the constellation of Hercules, 230 million light years away, a fierce and drawn-out battle is finally coming to an end. A pair of colliding galaxies, pulled together by gravity, are at last laying down their arms and joining forces.
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A Radical Discovery About Waterfalls Could Rewrite The History of Earth's Landscapes
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A Radical Discovery About Waterfalls Could Rewrite The History of Earth's Landscapes
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A Radical Discovery About Waterfalls Could Rewrite The History of Earth's Landscapes
Waterfalls are one of the most majestic things on the planet: a beautiful, thunderous display of water and physics. But where do these cascading creations come from?
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The Rise of Farming And Soft Foods Might Have Forever Changed The Way Humans Speak
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The Rise of Farming And Soft Foods Might Have Forever Changed The Way Humans Speak
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The Rise of Farming And Soft Foods Might Have Forever Changed The Way Humans Speak
The human capacity for language divides our species from the rest of the animal kingdom. Language has not only allowed us to conquer all corners of the globe, but to devise writing, mathematics and all things thereafter.
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MIT Scientists Think The Last 3 Ice Ages Were Triggered by Tectonic Collisions
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MIT Scientists Think The Last 3 Ice Ages Were Triggered by Tectonic Collisions
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MIT Scientists Think The Last 3 Ice Ages Were Triggered by Tectonic Collisions
The last three ice ages might have been triggered by tectonic collisions between Earth's continents, according to new research, and it could give us clues as to how the planet's climate might suddenly shift again in the future.
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These Stunning Photos Show Eerie Similarities Between Earth And Jupiter
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These Stunning Photos Show Eerie Similarities Between Earth And Jupiter
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These Stunning Photos Show Eerie Similarities Between Earth And Jupiter
Jupiter: a massive, lifeless gas giant out there on the other side of the asteroid belt. It's a behemoth, containing 2.5 times as much mass as all the other planets combined. To top it off, it's named after the Roman king of gods.
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This Nile Shipwreck Is First Evidence That Herodotus Wasn't Lying About Egyptian Boats
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This Nile Shipwreck Is First Evidence That Herodotus Wasn't Lying About Egyptian Boats
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This Nile Shipwreck Is First Evidence That Herodotus Wasn't Lying About Egyptian Boats
A sunken ship found in the Nile river may have lain undisturbed for over 2,500 years, but now it is finally ponying up its secrets. Scientists think that this ship has revealed a structure whose existence has been debated for centuries.
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Crazy New Experiment Shows Human Brains Can Detect Earth's Magnetic Field
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Crazy New Experiment Shows Human Brains Can Detect Earth's Magnetic Field
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Crazy New Experiment Shows Human Brains Can Detect Earth's Magnetic Field
Do human beings have a magnetic sense? Biologists know other animals do. They think it helps creatures including bees, turtles and birds navigate through the world.
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Scientists Grew a Mini-Brain in a Dish, And It Connected to a Spinal Cord by Itself
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Scientists Grew a Mini-Brain in a Dish, And It Connected to a Spinal Cord by Itself
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Future car technologies will help combat high death rate on the roads
Recent car accident statistics is totally frustrating. And the majority of the road accidents are caused by driver misbehavior.
As a recognized leader in safety, Volvo Cars has analyzed a huge amount of data on car accidents and revealed the three key factors that affect safety on the roads. These factors constitute the so called ‘gaps’ in the company’s ambition to completely end serious injuries and fatalities in its cars.
The first one is the well-known problem of speeding. Data from the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (USA) shows that 25 per cent of all traffic fatalities in the US in 2017 were caused by speeding. But how is it possible to make drivers stick to speed limits? The Swedish car maker proposes a radical approach: it will limit the top speed on all its cars to 180 kph from 2020. The cars won’t simply go faster.
Two other problems are intoxication and distraction which often fail to be an impediment for drivers, as the aforementioned statistics from the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (USA) say. The cause of 30 per cent of all fatal car accidents was the driver intoxication.
And for these hard-to-eliminate problems the company proposes a range of measures. Starting from early 2020s all the cars will be equipped with special cameras that will be constantly monitoring driver behavior and register deviations such as eyes closed or insufficient steering. In this case, driver assistance systems will be activated to intervene. That intervention could involve limiting the car’s speed, alerting the Volvo on Call assistance service and, as a final course of action, actively slowing down and safely parking the car.
Recent car accident statistics is totally frustrating. And the majority of the road accidents are caused by driver misbehavior.
As a recognized leader in safety, Volvo Cars has analyzed a huge amount of data on car accidents and revealed the three key factors that affect safety on the roads. These factors constitute the so called ‘gaps’ in the company’s ambition to completely end serious injuries and fatalities in its cars.
The first one is the well-known problem of speeding. Data from the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (USA) shows that 25 per cent of all traffic fatalities in the US in 2017 were caused by speeding. But how is it possible to make drivers stick to speed limits? The Swedish car maker proposes a radical approach: it will limit the top speed on all its cars to 180 kph from 2020. The cars won’t simply go faster.
Two other problems are intoxication and distraction which often fail to be an impediment for drivers, as the aforementioned statistics from the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (USA) say. The cause of 30 per cent of all fatal car accidents was the driver intoxication.
And for these hard-to-eliminate problems the company proposes a range of measures. Starting from early 2020s all the cars will be equipped with special cameras that will be constantly monitoring driver behavior and register deviations such as eyes closed or insufficient steering. In this case, driver assistance systems will be activated to intervene. That intervention could involve limiting the car’s speed, alerting the Volvo on Call assistance service and, as a final course of action, actively slowing down and safely parking the car.
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Only One Experiment Has Detected Dark Matter So Far. Now, The Plot Has Thickened
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Only One Experiment Has Detected Dark Matter So Far. Now, The Plot Has Thickened
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Only One Experiment Has Detected Dark Matter So Far. Now, The Plot Has Thickened
Of all the different dark matter detectors in the world, only one has consistently come up with a positive signal. The results of DAMA experiment in Italy are hotly debated - and now two experiments seeking to verify it using the same materials hav
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Math Duo Maps the Infinite Terrain of Minimal Surfaces
A pair of mathematicians has built on an obscure, 30-year-old mathematical theory to show that soap-filmlike minimal surfaces appear abundantly in a wide range of shapes.
A pair of mathematicians has built on an obscure, 30-year-old mathematical theory to show that soap-filmlike minimal surfaces appear abundantly in a wide range of shapes.
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Scientists Have Unearthed an Incredibly Rare Haul of Precious Fossils in China
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Scientists Have Unearthed an Incredibly Rare Haul of Precious Fossils in China
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Scientists Have Unearthed an Incredibly Rare Haul of Precious Fossils in China
A spectacular discovery in south China is shedding more light on the mysterious lifeforms that crawled our planet half a billion years ago. In a shale bed next to Danshui River, palaentologists have excavated around 30,000 fossils dating back to th
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Solar Storms Could Be Up to 100x More Damaging if You Live Near Certain Rock Types
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Solar Storms Could Be Up to 100x More Damaging if You Live Near Certain Rock Types
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Solar Storms Could Be Up to 100x More Damaging if You Live Near Certain Rock Types
The type of rocks you live near could greatly affect how much your area could be damaged by massive solar flares in future, a study has found.