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The Antarctic Lake That Never Freezes: Don Juan Pond, the Most Extreme Salt Flat on Earth and the Place Most Similar to Mars

It was the year 1961 when two helicopter pilot lieutenants, Don Roe and John Hickey, were flying over the western end of ...
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How Can 0.999… Equal 1? The Mathematical Certainty That Defies Intuition

From high school classrooms to the most heated corners of the Internet, few mathematical concepts generate as much debate and ...
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Scientists Manage to Revive Activity in the Brain of a Cryogenized Mouse for the First Time

A research team from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) has achieved a milestone in the field of cryopreservation: for the first time, they have managed to restore functional ...
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Another 13,000 inscribed ostraca found at Athribis, now the largest Egyptian site of ceramic fragments related to astronomy

The Egyptian-German archaeological mission, composed of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the University of Tübingen, has concluded the excavation season at the site of Athribis, in the province ...
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34 Samnite Tombs Discovered in Pontecagnano, 15 of Them Belonging to Children with Large Bronze Belts

The continuous archaeological protection activity carried out by the Soprintendenza of Salerno in the municipality of Pontecagnano Faiano, in the Italian province of Salerno, since the 1960s has gradu ...
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Guillermo Carvajal

For decades, the Schlüsselgerät 41 (SG-41) was a ghost in the history of cryptography. More advanced than the famous Enigma, this 17-kilogram machine designed by the German inventor Fritz Menzer in ...
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A 10,000-Year-Old Settlement Discovered in Türkiye Could Rewrite the Origins of Sedentary Life and Civilization

A team of archaeologists from Mardin Artuklu University, in southeastern Türkiye, has brought to light one of the most important discoveries for understanding the origins of civilization in northern ...
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A Lost Page of an Archimedes Manuscript Is Found, with an Enigmatic Image Added Over the Ancient Text

The history of science and classical philology experienced this March 2026 a chapter worthy of an academic intrigue novel, ...
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Archaeologists achieve a historic milestone by dating French cave paintings with carbon-14 for the first time

A team led by a researcher from the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) has achieved a milestone in prehistoric archaeology by confirming through absolute dating the age of several parietal ...
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First Direct Evidence of the Use of Sickles to Harvest Cereals by the Ancient Canarians Found in Gran Canaria

A research team from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) has revealed the results of an exhaustive analysis of the stone tools recovered from the C008 cave complex, located on the ...
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Hipparchia, the Greek philosopher of the Cynic school remembered in the annual festival in Athens that celebrated the incorporation of women into philosophy

Hipparchia is a genus of butterflies in the Nymphalidae family, so large that it includes nearly six thousand species worldwide. The name was given in 1807 by the Danish zoologist Johan Christian ...
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Ritual quartz extraction sealed with two 2,000-year-old axes discovered high atop the Bruchhauser Rocks, surrounded by Iron Age walls

Archaeological excavations carried out during 2025 at the Iron Age wall of the Bruchhauser Steine (Bruchhauser Rocks), in ...