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‘It’s answering one of the questions of the century’: Scientists may finally know where the oldest gold in the universe came from

Scientists may have finally worked out where gold came from in the early universe. In a new study, researchers revealed…

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Catquistadors: Oldest known domestic cats in the US died off Florida coast in a 1559 Spanish shipwreck

The earliest known domestic cat in what is now the United States perished 466 years ago in a shipwreck off…

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‘Hell ant’ with scythe-like jaws may be oldest ant fossil ever discovered

A newly discovered “hell ant” fossil may be the oldest ant ever found, scientists say. This fossilized insect was unearthed…

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Oldest ant fossil ever found shows how these insects took over the world

A 110-million-year-old fossil of the hell ant Vulcanidris cratensis Anderson Lepeco At more than 110 million years old, a fossil…

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Lviv pysanka: World’s oldest Easter egg

Name: Lviv pysanka What it is: A decorated duck egg Where it is from: Lviv, Ukraine When it was made:…

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NASA’s oldest active astronaut lands with space station crewmates on his 70th birthday

NASA’s oldest active astronaut has redefined traveling “home” for your birthday, landing from the International Space Station on the same…

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Antarctic teams drill oldest ice cores yet in search of climate clues

The camp at Dome C on the East Antarctic plateau where the Beyond EPICA team are drilling ice cores Rob…

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4,000-year-old burial of elite woman with ostrich fan reveals world’s oldest known evidence of head straps

Marks on 4,000-year-old skeletons reveal that Bronze Age women in Nubia were carrying goods and young children on their heads…

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Vanguard 1 is the oldest satellite orbiting Earth. Scientists want to bring it home after 67 years

Decades ago during the heady space race rivalry between the former Soviet Union and the United States, the entire world…

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Mammoth tusk flakes may be the oldest ivory objects made by humans

A mammoth skeleton at the State Museum for Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany DANIEL NAUPOLD/dpa/Alamy Archaeologists excavating 400,000-year-old rock in…

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