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AI benchmarking platform is helping top companies rig their model performances, study claims

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Rare face tattoos on 800-year-old mystery mummy baffle archaeologists

Analysis of a mummy kept for a century at the University of Turin in Italy has revealed rare face tattoos made with a special black ink.

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'Super-vision' contact lenses let wearers see in the dark — even with their eyes closed

Researchers have developed new contact lenses that enable vision in the near-infrared range, and they could restore color perception to people with color blindness.

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'Strange' star pulses detected in search for extraterrestrial intelligence

A retired researcher has detected an unusual pulse in the light of nearby stars while looking for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. Aliens are one possible explanation for the strange signal, but as with every other unexplained space phenomenon, it's probably not aliens.

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2,300-year-old gold ring found in Israel was likely buried by a betrothed girl

A gold ring with a red gemstone found in Israel dates to the Hellenistic period and may have been buried in a coming-of-age ritual.

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Our teeth evolved from fish 'body armor' over 460 million years, scientists discover

Teeth are sensitive because they evolved from sensory tissue in both ancient vertebrates and ancient arthropods.

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140,000 year old bones of our ancient ancestors found on sea floor, revealing secrets of extinct human species

Researchers have recovered Homo erectus bones from the seafloor, which points to an unknown hominin population hunting on land that is now underwater in Southeast Asia.

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Astronomers spy puzzlingly 'perfect' cosmic orb with unknown size and location

New radio images reveal an unusually faint and symmetrical supernova remnant, nicknamed Telios, lurking just below the galactic plane of the Milky Way. However, they cannot tell exactly where it is, how big it is or how it formed.

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'It was probably some kind of an ambush': 17,000 years ago, a man died in a projectile weapon attack in what is now Italy

A new analysis of a skeleton uncovered 50 years ago provides some of the earliest evidence of intergroup conflict between humans to date.

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33-inch-long 'woolly' mountain rat caught on camera for first time ever

The world's second-biggest rat species — a gargantuan woolly beast — was caught on camera in the mountains of New Guinea.

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Giant 'white streak' appears over multiple US states as Chinese rocket dumps experimental fuel in space

A recent launch of China's Zhuque-2E rocket triggered a giant white streak of light to appear above at least seven U.S. states after deploying six satellites into low-Earth orbit. The light show, which was visible in at least seven states, was the result of a "fuel dump," experts say.

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Amazon's new warehouse robot has a 'sense of touch' that could see it replace human workers

Amazon's Vulcan, the first warehouse robot with touch sensitivity, has begun operations in the company's Spokane, Washington, and Hamburg, Germany, fulfillment centers.

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Never-before-seen 'extreme' microbes surrounded NASA robot before it was sent to Mars 18 years ago, new study reveals

DNA analysis has revealed that 26 novel species of "extremophile" bacteria were lurking in a clean room that housed NASA's Phoenix lander before it was launched to Mars in 2007. The hardy microbes might be capable of surviving in space.

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Diagnostic dilemma: A man held in a sneeze — and it punctured his windpipe

A man tore his windpipe, in part, due to hay fever.

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Building quantum supercomputers: Scientists connect two quantum processors using existing fiber optic cables for the first time

Scientists have connected two quantum computers, paving the way for distributed quantum computing, quantum supercomputers and a quantum internet.

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'It epitomises the strangeness of Sutton Hoo': 6th-century bucket found at Anglo-Saxon ship burial holds human cremation

Archaeologists found a cremation burial while examining the inside of a bucket from Sutton Hoo, a 1,400-year-old boat burial site in England.

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Venus may be geologically 'alive' after all, reanalysis of 30-year-old NASA data reveals

New research strengthens the case that Venus, long considered a geologically stagnant world, may be more Earth-like in its internal dynamics than once believed.

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Unknown strain of bacteria found on China's Tiangong Space Station

Analysis of swabs from China's Tiangong Space Station has revealed a new strain of bacteria sporting new adaptations for surviving outer space.

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Hospital superbug can feed on medical plastic, first-of-its-kind study reveals

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is associated with 559,000 yearly deaths worldwide, and many of them come from hospital-acquired infections. A new study suggests it may be thriving in sterile environments by feeding on medical plastics.

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Exascale computing is here — what does this new era of computing mean and what are exascale supercomputers capable of?

Exascale computing can process over a quintillion operations every second — enabling supercomputers to perform complex simulations that were previously impossible. But how does it work?

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World's largest iceberg, A23a, is disintegrating into thousands of pieces alongside penguin refuge — Earth from space

A new satellite photo has revealed that the "megaberg," A23a, is beginning to break apart, spawning thousands of smaller ice chunks around the Antarctic island of South Georgia.

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2-in-1 COVID-flu vaccine looks promising in trial — but experts say approval may be delayed

Late-stage trial data suggest that a new COVID-flu vaccine offers good protection against both infections, but experts expect the shot's approval may be delayed.

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Joe Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive' prostate cancer: What you need to know

Former U.S. President Joe Biden's office announced that he has been diagnosed with "aggressive" prostate cancer, which has spread to his bones. Here's what to know about the disease.

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Capuchins have started abducting newborn howler monkeys in bizarre, deadly fad

Young male capuchins have developed a strange trend of acquiring baby howler monkeys. It doesn't end well for the babies.

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Breakthrough stretchy battery moves like toothpaste and could power pacemakers and hearing aids

This breakthrough in battery power could bring wearable tech, implanted medical devices, and humanoid robots to life.

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