A rare 800 year old seal from the Crusade era was found in an ancient farmstead in Jerusalem. Such a seal is considered an extraordinary find, and was found in…
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Archaeologist have uncovered what were previously invisible paintings at the 900 year old Angor Wat temple in Cambodia, the journal Antiquity reported. Using the same technology employed on the NASA…
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Scientists discover way to produce matter from light
by editorby editorResearchers at Imperial College London have discovered a technique that can result in matter produced from light. Though not something that will yet produce physical objects as we see in…
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A historic ship from 1876 was confirmed as found in South Carolina by NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) last week. Planter was a steam ship commandeered by slaves and…
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A team of paleontologists have unearthed what is likely the bones of the largest dinosaurs that walked on the earth. Estimated the equivalent of 14 elephants in weight and 130…
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Archeologists have discovered a 12,000 year old human skeleton in a cave in the Yucatan peninsula, the journal Science has reported. The oldest known human remains found in the Americas,…
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An exo-planet with an 80,000 year orbit from its star has been discovered by astronomers at the University of Montreal, Canada. Orbiting the GU Psc star in the Pisces constellation,…
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A team from the University of Miami has discovered after a fMRI study on a brain damaged man turned math genius, that vast savant syndrome type abilities may lay dormant…
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Explorers claim a 500 year old ship wreck off the coast of Haiti is definitively the famed Santa Maria ship that Christopher Columbus set sail in to explore the “New…
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Researchers able to trigger lucid dreaming
by editorby editorResearchers at the University of Frankfurt have discovered a way to induce ‘lucid’ dreaming, a form of dreaming between REM and being awake, in which the subject has conscious awareness…
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Physicists one step closer to superconductivity holy-grail
by editorby editorPhysicists at the University of British Columbia are one step closer to the holy grail of room temperature super conductivity. Should scientists have a break through in this field in…
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At 110 light years away in the constellation Hercules, a sun-star 15% larger than our own and of the same chemical composition has been confirmed and announced in the June…
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Scientists researching the anti-aging hormone “Klotho” in the human brain discovered it is also responsible for improved cognition according to the journal Cell Reports. An improvement in IQ by 6…
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The oldest species in the shark taxonomy, a rare Megamouth shark, was caught off the coast of Shizuoka, Japan last month. The shark was only the 58th of its species…
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2,300 year old geoglyphs discovered in Peru
by editorby editorEven older than the Nazca lines (and culture), a new set of ancient geoglyphs have been discovered in Peru. What is interesting is that these lines are attributed to the…
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Sounds like something out of the movies! 1000 ounces of gold were recovered from an 1857 shipwreck off the coast of South Carolina. The S.S. Central America was a steamship…
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Exciting times indeed! Space scientists have now added the Jovian moon Ganamede to a growing list of inner solar system celestial bodies that may harbor sub-surface liquid water. It now…
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Liquid water definitively confirmed on dwarf planet Ceres in our solar system. http://news.yahoo.com/telescope-spies-water-plumes-dwarf-planet-ceres-180733425.html (quoted January 23rd, 2014)
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And yet another exciting advancement in the search for biological life in other areas of our solar system. The NASA Cassini spacecraft has confirmed that Saturn’s moon Enceladus has a…
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