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During an archaeological survey conducted in February, researchers from the Maritime Encounters program at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, identified six previously unregistered Bronze Age mines ...

In 1899, something strange happened in the small village of Bagicz, Poland: a coffin fell off a cliff near the Baltic Sea. Inside, archaeologists found a well-preserved skeleton of a woman from the ...

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Explore the India-Canada uranium deal's impact on India's nuclear program and energy security in this comprehensive analysis.

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Antarctica is covered by a miles-thick ice sheet, but was that always the case? And when was the coldest continent ice-free?

Quote of the day by the woman who changed science, Maria Goeppert Mayer: In 1963, only the second woman in history won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Maria Goeppert Mayer earned it for the nuclear shell ...