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Illustration of two Roman men playing an ancient board game linked to an archaeological stone analyzed with artificial intelligence

Archaeologists are turning to artificial intelligence to decipher a 2,000-year-old Roman inscription, and what’s written on the stone could change everything we thought we knew about an ancient lost game

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April 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
An offshore drilling vessel operating in the Atlantic Ocean to extract core samples from the continental shelf.

An “underground sea” of fresh water has been discovered beneath the Atlantic Ocean, so large that it could supply New York City for 800 years

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April 8, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Richard Feynman teaching in front of a blackboard during the era when he inspired the idea of extreme miniaturization

Richard Feynman, physicist and visionary, in 1959: “There is enough space on the head of a pin to fit the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica”

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April 8, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Illustration of human and Neanderthal DNA comparison highlighting missing segments on the X chromosome

We carry Neanderthal DNA… except where it matters most

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April 7, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Seismic imaging of tectonic plate breaking apart beneath Pacific Ocean near Cascadia subduction zone

For the first time, they “saw” a tectonic plate breaking apart under the Pacific, and what they found was not a crack, but an entire system

By ECONEWS
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April 7, 2026 at 10:15 AM
An archaeological excavation of a medieval Golden Horde mausoleum in Kazakhstan where elite Mongol DNA was recently discovered.

Human DNA reopens the last great mystery of Genghis Khan, and what scientists have discovered could change everything we thought we knew about his descendants

By ECONEWS
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April 7, 2026 at 6:30 AM
China’s 2-watt satellite laser transmits gigabit-speed data to an Earth telescope during a space-to-ground test

China has just achieved an extraordinary feat: a laser with a power output of just 2 watts has transmitted data at a speed of 1 gigabit per second from a distance of 36,705 kilometers to Earth

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April 7, 2026 at 3:39 AM
A side-by-side comparison of a fossilized three-toed dinosaur footprint and a digital 3D mesh analysis generated by the DinoTracker AI.

An artificial intelligence application identifies dinosaur footprints with 90% accuracy… and may have found the footprints of the planet’s first birds, dating back 200 million years

By ECONEWS
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April 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A 3D scientific simulation showing Earth's magnetic field being stretched by solar wind into a long tail that envelops the Moon.

The Moon could harbor a gigantic chemical archive of the early Earth

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April 6, 2026 at 12:30 PM
An artist's illustration of a towering Martian dust devil with faint, blue electrical spark discharges flickering within the swirling orange sand.

Perseverance detects tiny electrical sparks in Martian dust devils, the first evidence of lightning on Mars

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April 6, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Preserved squid specimen identified as Mobydickia poseidonii, a new squid family discovered from a sperm whale stomach sample

It all began with a strange, squid-like mass found in the stomach of a sperm whale in 1955 and 1956, and decades later, scientists discovered that it was something far stranger than anyone could have imagined

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April 6, 2026 at 3:19 AM
A colorful scientific chart showing the overlapping thermal performance curves of various species, including insects, fish, and plants, all following a similar bell-shaped path.

Scientists claim to have discovered a universal rule that “links” evolution and works in the same way in bacteria, plants, reptiles, fish, and insects

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April 5, 2026 at 6:30 PM
For years, no one knew what those strange clay “chimneys” protruding from the ground in the Amazon were for, until a study published on February 23, 2026, came up with an answer that was as simple as it was brilliant

For years, no one knew what those strange clay “chimneys” protruding from the ground in the Amazon were for, until a study published on February 23, 2026, came up with an answer that was as simple as it was brilliant

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April 5, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Researchers extracting a vertical ice core sample from the frozen floor of a Romanian cave for microbial analysis.

A 5,000-year-old bacterium awakens from the ice in a cave in Romania, revealing something disturbing: it was already resistant to antibiotics still used today to treat serious infections

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April 5, 2026 at 10:15 AM
A composite image showing a total solar eclipse transitioning into an annular "ring of fire" eclipse against a dark starry background.

The Moon moves 3.8 cm away from Earth each year, and the last total solar eclipse could come in about 600 million years

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April 5, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Rare gigantic jet lightning shooting upward from a thunderstorm toward space as seen from the International Space Station

NASA is once again highlighting an image taken on July 3, 2025, from the ISS that looks like something out of a movie: a “gigantic jet” that doesn’t fall to Earth, but instead shoots out of a storm and rises to a height of nearly 100 kilometers

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April 5, 2026 at 4:52 AM
A digital recreation of a Neanderthal and a modern human standing side-by-side, representing the genetic blending of the two lineages.

It is possible that Neanderthals did not “die out”… they mixed with us until they became invisible

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April 4, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A high-resolution close-up of a dark, carbon-rich rocky sample from asteroid Bennu held in a NASA laboratory setting.

Samples from the asteroid Bennu force us to rethink the origin of life: NASA finds key compounds in rocks over 4.5 billion years old

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April 4, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Bright slope lineae on Mercury detected in NASA MESSENGER images, suggesting recent geological activity on the planet’s crater walls.

For decades, Mercury had been considered a “dead” planet, but a study has just changed that idea. NASA has detected bright structures that point to current geological activity

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April 4, 2026 at 4:08 AM
JOIDES Resolution research vessel at sea during the expedition that recovered the deepest mantle core ever drilled beneath the Atlantic Ocean

Scientists drill into the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and extract the deepest mantle core ever obtained at 4,160 feet

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April 3, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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