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How Xs and Cs spotted in the ionosphere could disrupt life on Earth

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Ancient text reveals details of Plato’s burial place and final evening, experts say

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Hermann Göring: Five human skeletons, missing hands and feet, found outside house of Nazi leader

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Archaeologists uncover ‘astonishing’ remains of horses buried 2,000 years ago

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Ancient Egyptian medicine may have included cancer surgery, skull analysis reveals

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German cockroaches’ unexpected origins revealed by genomic analysis

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Scientists locate origin of the sun’s magnetic field

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NASA PREFIRE mission set to launch to study Earth’s polar regions

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Crows can count much in the same way as human toddlers, study finds

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Scientists have discovered a theoretically habitable, Earth-size planet

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