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James Webb telescope solves 20-year-old Hubble conundrum — and it could finally explain why the universe’s oldest planets exist
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just solved a 20-year-old mystery about how ancient stars could host massive planets.…
Read More »188 medieval figurines that held Christian saints’ bones unearthed in Berlin’s oldest town square
Archaeologists in Berlin have uncovered the remains of 188 figurines that were used as reliquaries — objects that held the…
Read More »The Oldest Restaurant in the World
Finding the oldest restaurant in the world requires tracing a tricky etiology riddled with myth, embellishments, and lost records. It’s…
Read More »Oldest firearms ever found in US were abandoned by Spanish in 16th-century battle against Native Americans
Two 16th-century cannons unearthed in Arizona may be the oldest firearms ever found in the United States, new research finds.…
Read More »35,000-year-old ‘tortoise shell’ carving may be Holy Land’s oldest evidence of ritual behavior
A granite boulder carved more than 35,000 years ago deep in a cave in Israel may be the oldest evidence…
Read More »The moon’s oldest crater is super round – and that’s great news for NASA’s Artemis astronauts
New research published in the Earth and Planetary Science Letters journal suggests the moon’s oldest crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin,…
Read More »Warhammer 40K Is Finally Updating Some of Its Oldest Models
A few years ago, Games Workshop finally begun taking some unprecedented steps to update the models of one of Warhammer 40,000‘s…
Read More »World’s Oldest Alphabet Discovered | Scientific American
November 22, 2024 3 min read World’s Oldest Alphabet Found on an Ancient Clay Gift Tag A finger-sized clay cylinder…
Read More »Worm-like fossil is the oldest ancestor of spiders and crustaceans
3D laser scan of the specimen, Uncus dzaugisi Mary L. Droser A worm-like creature preserved in ancient rock has just…
Read More »12,000-year-old stones may be oldest example of wheel-like tools
A perforated pebble from the Nahal Ein Gev II archaeological site, which may be an ancient spindle whorl Laurent Davin…
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