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Intriguing finds could solve mystery of women in medieval cemetery
New evidence suggests that women discovered in a medieval cemetery may have belonged to an early female religious community. Source: BBC News
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NASA’s Webb telescope just discovered one of the weirdest planets ever
A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this Jupiter-mass world has a bizarre carbon-rich atmosphere filled with soot clouds and possibly diamonds at its core. Its extreme gravity stretches it into a lemon shape, and it completes a full orbit in under eight hours.
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Opinion: Why I’m skipping Dry January
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Palona goes vertical, launches Vision, Workflow: 4 key lessons for AI builders
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This “mushroom” is not a fungus, it’s a bizarre plant that breaks all the rules
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Drones detect deadly virus in Arctic whales' breath
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Opinion: Francis Collins: ‘I think of science as glimpsing God’s mind’
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“Java Man” Fossils Returned to Indonesia
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Video Friday: Happy Robot Holidays
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This “mushroom” is not a fungus, it’s a bizarre plant that breaks all the rules
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Drones detect deadly virus in Arctic whales' breath
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Opinion: Francis Collins: ‘I think of science as glimpsing God’s mind’
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