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Geological detectives are piecing together an intriguing seafloor puzzle. The Indian Ocean and some of its islands, scientists say, may lie on top of the remains of an ancient continent pulled apart by plate tectonics between 50 million and 100 million years ago. 
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“The element of surprise was crucial to the experience of Nazca labyrinth walking. Shamans or pilgrims could have walked the tricky trail on spiritual journeys. Or the path might have been reserved for Nazca gods.
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On November 1, under the nave of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem, an archeological park called “Durch die Zeiten” (Through Time) opened. It provides the answer to a question that has long eluded researchers: just where Golgotha, the place where Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected, is really located.
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Over 500 years ago, a young woman was buried in the holiest temple of the ancient Aztec city Tenochtitlan. She was surely an elite member of her society, based on the location of her grave.
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Star's oversized debris ring challenges theories of planet formation...
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A new study has increased the mystery surrounding the inner workings of the planet. The study by boffins at the University of London and published in Nature, found that the solid ball of iron that forms the Earth's core is losing heat 2-3 times faster than previously thought via a process called conduction. This suggests that the core could be solidifying much faster than earlier estimates. Source: NY Times
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The Large Area Telescope (LAT), built by SLAC for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, collects information on high-energy gamma rays from numerous sources in the sky.
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People have been punching holes in each other's skulls, for medicinal purposes or magic, since at least the middle part of the Stone Age.
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spotted the mysterious objects creating trails in the rings that scientists are calling 'mini-jets'. Some of these objects travel in groups creating rippling swirls and eddies in the planet's strange ring.
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The most accurate study so far of the motions of stars in the Milky Way has found no evidence for dark matter in a large volume around the Sun. Articles about ASTRONOMY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=astronomy
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Astronomers at the University of Manchester believe they have found the answer to the mystery of a powerful 'superwind' which causes the death of stars. Articles about ASTRONOMY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=astronomy
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A huge, copper-toned formation in West Africa dominates a mesmerizing photo taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station.
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A recent image acquired by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows the interior of Eminescu, a youngish 130-km (80 mile) wide crater just north of Mercury's equator.
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A dam unearthed during excavation work in the northern Anatolian province of Çorum reveals that the dam construction techniques of the ancient past are similar to the techniques used today, according to archaeologists.
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October 18, 2013 9:24 PM
Of course! They were the Hattians! THEY RULE!
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Scientific proof of a potential alternative energy source dates back 25,000 years. Discovered in 2005, the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun Archaeological Park, which houses the largest pyramid in the world, is now the most active archaeological site on the planet. The team’s findings also reveal an energy beam, 13 feet in radius that transmits an unexplainable electromagnetic signal measuring 28 kilohertz coming from the center of the Pyramid of the Sun.
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Walter Tschinkel may not have solved the mystery of the fairy circles, but he can tell you that they're alive. Tens of thousands of the formations—bare patches of soil, 2 to 12 meters in diameter—freckle grasslands from southern Angola to northern South Africa, their perimeters often marked by a tall fringe of grass. Locals say they're the footprints of the gods. Scientists have thrown their hands up in the air. But now Tschinkel, a biologist at Florida State University in Tallahassee, has discovered something no one else has.
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A new collaboration between Oxford University and the Lausanne Museum of Zoology will use the latest genetic techniques to investigate organic remains that some have claimed belong to the ‘Yeti’ and other ‘lost’ hominid species.
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The remains – confirmed to be tens of thousands of years old –have been hailed as the greatest discovery in more than half a century, according to reports.
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Astronomers from the University of Bonn in Germany have discovered a vast structure of satellite galaxies and clusters of stars surrounding our Galaxy, stretching out across a million light years. The work challenges the existence of dark matter, part of the standard model for the evolution of the universe. Articles about ASTRONOMY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=astronomy
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The megalithic stone structure may have been used as an astronomical calendar.
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An Argentine-Swedish research team has reported a 70 million years old pocket of fossilized bones and unique eggs of an enigmatic birdlike dinosaur in Patagonia.
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To the scientists’ surprise, this creature lived at the same time and in the same region as Australopithecus afarensis, a hominid species best known for a partial skeleton dubbed Lucy. Another recent fossil discovery in Ethiopia suggests that Lucy’s kind walked much as people do today (SN: 7/17/10, p. 5).
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