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This Unusual Fossil Sat Unstudied for Years—Now Scientists Say It Was a Giant That Lived Alongside the “Hobbits” of Flores

A mysterious fossil retrieved from the former home of Indonesia’s "Hobbits" reveals that a giant once inhabited the same ...
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DARPA Robot Builds a Structure in Space for the First Time, Opening the Door to Giant Orbiting Spacecraft

A DARPA robot has assembled a structure in orbit for the first time, paving the way for giant space telescopes and solar ...
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Into the “Zeptoverse”: CERN Experiments Detect Evidence of Something So Rare It Could Potentially Reveal New Forces of Nature

An extraordinarily rare form of particle decay could help to reveal as-yet unknown particles and other forces of nature.
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“Hidden” Disasters in Japan’s Past Revealed by Deep-Sea Core Experiments

Radiocarbon tests of cores extracted from the sea around Japan have revealed a geophysical record of hidden disasters in the ...
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A Controversial New Theory Claims the Universe Could Be Twice as Old as Once Thought—and It Just Passed Several Key Tests

In the latest shakeup to modern cosmological research, a controversial new theory that suggests our universe could be vastly older than once thought—perhaps nearly double its currently accepted ...
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Scientists Have Achieved the Coldest Temperature Ever Recorded in Space Aboard China’s Tiangong Station

Scientists have achieved the lowest equivalent temperature ever recorded in space aboard China’s Tiangong space station.
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“I Am Neo!” Programming the Brain to Fight Like the Matrix Might Actually Be Possible

New experiments suggest that scientists may one day be able to transfer the skills of fighters into novice brains like Neo in ...