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Archaeologists entered the tomb of Pa-di-Imen in Saqqara, Egypt, in 1898, and they walked out with a wooden artifact that has ...

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For 1,700 years, no one knew where the First Council of Nicaea actually took place. The answer may have been sitting in a ...

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A Cold War-era law called the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951 allows U.S. government agencies to suppress patents deemed ...

Friction normally needs two surfaces rubbing together. Physicists just proved light can do the job all by itself.

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