The wreckage of the Mary Rose at The Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth, England.
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Bones from a Tudor warship reveal what life was like for the crew
Ancient buildings and landscape modifications (including public plazas, agricultural terraces, and field walls) blanket uplands, while low-lying areas that flood seasonally were mostly unmodified save for the construction of reservoirs.
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Lost Maya city discovered in Mexico
A prime number is a whole number that can only be divided by 1 and itself. A former Nvidia programmer discovered the world's largest known prime number using graphics processing units.
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Record-breaking prime number containing more than 41 million digits found by former Nvidia programmer
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Those typing monkeys will never produce Shakespeare’s works, mathematicians say
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is depicted in this artist’s concept traveling through interstellar space, or the space between stars, which it entered in 2012.
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Aging spacecraft starts up a radio transmitter it hasn’t used since 1981 from 15 billion miles away
The wreckage of the Mary Rose at The Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth, England.
The Mary Rose Trust
A Tudor warship sank nearly 500 years ago. The bones of its crew reveal what life was like
NASA’s Perseverance rover captured the silhouette of the Martian moon Phobos as it passed in front of the Sun on Sept. 30, 2024. The video shows the transit speeded up by four times, followed by the eclipse in real time.
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Rover captures peculiar ‘googly eye’ in the Martian sky
The United States’ oldest surviving tombstone from 17th century Jamestown has been identified as black limestone originally from Europe.
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Scientists find new piece in puzzle of America’s oldest tombstone
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How giant rodents could rat on wildlife traffickers
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A supernova first seen in 1181 is releasing glowing filaments

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Halloween comet’s final moments captured by SOHO spacecraft
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Scientists say skeletal remains found in castle well belong to figure from 800-year-old saga
Lost Silk Road cities mapped using remote sensing
Secret tomb found under ‘Indiana Jones’ filming location in Petra
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Students discover and publish unexpected proof for 2,000-year-old mathematical theory
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Stunning fossil preserved in fool’s gold reveals newly identified 450 million-year-old species
Stunning fossil trapped in amber reveals previously unknown species that lived during the time of dinosaurs
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