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Archaeologists in Austria have analyzed a collection of 500 iron bars that were likely lost in a Danube shipwreck 2,200 years ago. This "rusty treasure" is the largest cache of ancient iron ever discovered in Europe.
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| A 1,000-year-old, two-sided pendant from Russia features a snake-slaying Christian saint and what other design? |
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The glacial collapse that killed 1,400 people in Nepal in August highlighted one epicenter for such disasters — but there are other hotspots that experts are worried about.
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HAVE YOUR SAY | The idea of weapons in space, once a plot of science fiction, became a reality when U.S. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink revealed that the United States had deployed "on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action." Live Science readers shared their thoughts on the news.
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In 2017, the Hubble Space Telescope saw something strange happening to Comet 41P Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák. During a flyby of Earth, the object's spin suddenly slowed and then sped back up again, hinting at an exceptionally strong bout of "outgassing" that could eventually cause the comet to self-destruct, researchers claim.
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New research suggests that a perplexing signal created by a pair of colliding black holes may have been warped by a space-time phenomenon known as gravitational lensing. This theory could explain the "impossible" size of the merging singularities, but it also poses a new problem.
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Scientists have built a DNA-powered computer that can perform calculations using billions of molecules in a tiny drop of water. The system taps into the laws of physics to create what the scientists describe as a computing system that's more efficient than the conventional computers that are widely used today.
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