Science Discoveries
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Treaty of Tordesillas: The 1494 Line That Split the World Between Two Crowns
TORDESILLAS, July 13 — The ink has long faded, but the line it drew across the Atlantic endures.…
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1977 Galápagos Expedition Found the First Hydrothermal Vents and Life Without Sunlight
WOODS HOLE, Aug. 2 — The mineral-rich geysers discovered on the Pacific seafloor in 1977 rewrote the rules…
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Microplastics Found in 92% of Animals Sampled From Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents
NUR-SULTAN, August 2 — The integrity of global marine resources faces increasing scrutiny as a recent study revealed…
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Laser Survey Finds 396 New Earthworks in Brazil’s Amazon, Pointing to a Larger Ancient Population
BRASÍLIA, July 29 — Hundreds of previously unknown structures have been uncovered beneath the Amazon rainforest, according to…
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Lidar Survey Finds 396 Previously Unknown Earthworks Beneath the Amazon Rainforest
MANAUS, July 29 — Hundreds of hidden structures have been identified beneath the Amazon rainforest, lifted from obscurity…
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Pre-Columbian Amazon: ‘Wilderness’ or ‘Cultural Parkland’?
BRASÍLIA, July 29 — The long-held view of the Amazon as a near-empty wilderness before European arrival is…
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Oceans are losing dissolved oxygen as warming and nutrient runoff combine, a scientist warned
WASHINGTON, July 27, 2026 — A 2025 study in the journal Science documented that the ocean’s oxygen-starved zones…
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Climate Change Is Moving the World’s Fish, and Poor Coastal Nations Stand to Lose Most
WASHINGTON, July 27 — A 2025 study projects that by 2050, tropical oceans such as the Western Pacific…
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Ocean Dead Zones Have Quadrupled Since the 1950s as Oxygen Levels Fall
NEW YORK, July 27 — A major new synthesis of ocean monitoring data, published this year in Science…
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Astrophotography From Daguerre’s Failed 1839 Moon Shot to Modern CCD Imaging
MANILA, July 25 — The night sky has always drawn eyes upward, but turning that gaze into a…
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Friedrich Hayek’s 1944 book warned against central planning
VIENNA, July 25 — The city of Vienna, once the intellectual crucible of the Austrian school of economics,…
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Light Pollution Hides the Milky Way From More Than a Third of the World
WASHINGTON, July 25 — Light pollution has escalated into a global environmental crisis that now affects the overwhelming…
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Political Psychology Explores Voting, Leadership, and Extremism
ROME, July 21 — The Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune of 1871 did more than redraw borders.…
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From Babylon to Ptolemy: How Ancient Mapmakers Pictured the World
LONDON, July 21 — The history of cartography is a record of human efforts to model reality—or imagined…
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Luddite Movement: 19th-Century Tech Backlash & Political Upheaval
NOTTINGHAM, July 21 — The term “Luddite” entered the English lexicon during a wave of organised machine-breaking that…
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ZHR Forecast: Thirty Meteors an Hour Over Next Twenty-Four Hours
ISLAMABAD, July 21 — The zenithal hourly rate, or ZHR, is a standard astronomical measure that helps scientists…
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Luddites: 19th-Century Workers Who Fought Automation
NOTTINGHAM, July 21 — The word “Luddite” today often describes anyone wary of new technology, but its origins…
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Giant Finned Octopuses Prowled Cretaceous Seas, Fossil Jaws Suggest
The fossil record has a new heavyweight, and it doesn’t have a backbone. Paleontologists in Japan have identified…
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LSU Physicists Build Room-Temperature Material That Sorts Quantum States of Light
WASHINGTON, July 19 — A team of physicists has produced the first quantum material that operates at room…
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Ancient Indian Universities: Nalanda, Vikramshila, and Takshashila
NALANDA, India, July 19 — Ancient Indian universities like Nalanda, Vikramshila, and Takshashila were teaching astronomy, mathematics, medicine,…
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From Bicycle Shop to the Sky: Wright Brothers’ Path to Flight
KITTY HAWK, N.C., July 16 — The number that matters: 12 seconds. That is how long the first…
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Building a Hypercube: From Point to Tesseract in Four Steps
LONDON, July 16 — A unit hypercube of dimension four is called a tesseract. That much has been…
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Key Researchers and Evidence Behind the Cannabis Lung Cancer Warning
WASHINGTON, July 15 — The largest U.S. study on marijuana and lung cancer has been reported by Medical…
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Sir Francis Beaufort Created the Wind Force Scale for Weather
LONDON, July 11 — Against the backdrop of the North Atlantic, where wind and wave have dictated the…
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