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A mathematical puzzle solved, an ocean floor around Earth's core, innovations in architecture and more
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Ancient Ocean Floor Discovered Around Earth’s Core
A new study published in Science Advances reveals that there’s an ancient sunken ocean floor in between the layer of the Earth’s mantle and its core. Scientists from the University of Alabama discovered …
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Pentagon Says Extraterrestrials May Have Already Visited Earth
According to a draft document (which is under review) released by the Pentagon, intelligent extraterrestrial beings might have already visited Earth and even be monitoring life here via research devices—or probes. Written by …
Via theguardian.com
Useful Secrets Within a 4.2-Billion-Year-Old Asteroid
Three tiny fragments were collected by a Japanese spacecraft in 2005 from a 4.2-billion-year-old asteroid known as Itokawa. Smaller than the diameter of a hair, these components contain information that could help …
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Fossilized worm brains, cranberry packaging, the wet history of Mars and more inspiration from nature
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An AI art exhibition, a structure that predates Stonehenge, raising awareness about unpaid labor in prisons and more
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Rare Diamond Suggests Earth has Oceans’ Worth of Interior Water
Below the Earth’s surface there is a layer known as the mantle, a mostly solid zone of the planet’s interior that is notoriously difficult to understand because humans have only been able …
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Mount Everest's new height, evidence of the Anthropocene, work-from-home tips and more from around the internet
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Human-Made Elements Outweigh the Natural World
Researchers believe that 2020 is the year that human-made mass (roads, buildings, machines and everything else we manufacture) will outweigh the natural world (aka biomass). As mass on the planet is finite, …
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Mount Everest’s New Height
Officials from Nepal and China, the two nations that border Mount Everest, just announced a new official height for the mountain. Now documented as standing at 8,848.86 meters (29,031.69 feet) tall, Everest …