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'This was a pioneering achievement': Stone Age people put up posts to observe the solstices near Stonehenge long before the stones of sacred site were placed The discovery of two ancient holes at Stonehenge suggests people placed posts there to help observe the summer and winter solstices around 5,000 years ago.
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'It's a huge deal': Archaeologists discover second cannonball from the Battle of the Alamo, and it was likely fired by Texans Archaeologists have discovered a second cannonball from the 1836 Battle of the Alamo, and now they have one from each side.
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Oldest known plague victims found in a 5,500-year-old burial ground in Siberia — and many of them were children The oldest known evidence of the plague killing people has been found in Siberia, and it carried a gene that may have made it particularly deadly for children.
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Atlantic 'cold blob' is responsible for shifts in the Indian summer monsoon that threaten over 1 billion people An abnormally cold patch of water in the North Atlantic Ocean has triggered changes in the Indian summer monsoon via the jet stream winds, new research suggests.
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A secretive Chinese probe has just arrived at one of Earth's 'quasi-moons' and will soon attempt a first-of-its-kind landing ANALYSIS | China's Tianwen-2 mission has arrived at the quasi-moon Kamo'oalewa, which orbits the sun alongside Earth. The secretive probe will scoop up samples from our temporary companion to help uncover its mysterious origin, experts say.
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'A mixture from zero to infinity': Physicists split apart a photon — and ended up with an improbable swarm of particles Physicists have found that splitting a photon would lead to a complex state that may change the way we think of particles.
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