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Gemstone-filled river and striped mountain ridge form massive 'Y' in China's revitalized desert — Earth from space

A 2025 satellite photo shows a giant "Y" in the middle of the Taklamakan Desert, where a verdant river and a lengthy "red-white mountain" meet. The intersecting features are also home to an eighth-century fort that was chock-full of ancient artifacts.

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2,000-year-old Phoenician coin was used as bus fare in England, but 'how it got there will always be a mystery'

The ancient coin was probably minted in what is now Spain in the first century B.C., but no one knows why it was used to pay a 1950s transport fare.

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In people with epilepsy, sleeping after a seizure may trigger more seizures

Epileptic seizures alter sleep by prolonging the stage that's central to memory formation, potentially predisposing the brain to "remember" how to trigger subsequent seizures more easily, a small human study suggests.

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California's wildfire season is shifting, with more blazes after the traditional high-risk window, study finds

New research finds that climate-driven shifts in wildfire seasons in North America are different depending on the ecosystem.

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World's smallest QR code can store data for thousands of years ‪—‬ but you need an electron microscope to see it

Scientists created a tiny matrix that stores data by etching its grid into a thin ceramic film with a focused ion beam.

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Asante spider: A rare African sword ornament from Ghana's Gold Coast that later helped a man in Texas barter for his life

The spider-shaped sword ornament was created in Ghana in the 19th century and was passed down in a Texas family for generations.

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Making a 'digital twin' of yourself could revolutionize future surgeries, making medical procedures much more personal

Live Science spoke with Dr. John Pandolfino, a researcher who designed a "digital twin" to help guide surgery.

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Scientists tracked faint signals from the stars — and may have turned up hundreds of undiscovered planets

A new study shows that stars with low magnetic activity are likely to support exoplanetary systems, making the hunt for these celestial objects less random.

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'Exposed Cranium' leaks its gory secrets in new James Webb telescope images: Space photo of the week

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals new infrared images of the brain-shaped "Exposed Cranium" nebula, the final stages of a dying star.

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Why aren't mammals as colorful as reptiles, birds or fish?

Many mammals have fur the color of brown and black. Why don't they have more exotic colors, like purple and neon pink?

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Enormous 3D map of the universe shows brilliant 'sea of light' near the cosmic dawn

A unique technique allowed astronomers to see the early universe as a "sea of light" and explore the effects of gravity and dark energy on cosmic evolution.

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'It could revolutionize, completely, the way we treat depression': Researchers are exploring promising immune therapy for treating psychiatric symptoms

Live Science spoke with the scientists behind an upcoming clinical trial testing an immune therapy for depression.

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'The warming trend nearly doubled after 2014': The rate of global warming has accelerated more in the past decade than ever before

A new analysis finds that global warming has significantly accelerated since 2015, but not everyone agrees.

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Why is mercury a liquid?

Mercury is a metal, yet it has some weird physical properties, including being a liquid at room temperature.

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'Cikai Korran came here and saw': Visitors from India graffitied dozens of Egyptian tombs 2,000 years ago

Ancient inscriptions written in Indian languages have been discovered on Egyptian tombs in the Valley of the Kings.

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Ancient 'alien-like' skulls have been found on every continent but Antarctica. Anthropologists are starting to figure out why.

Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to why.

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Planting trees in the sea could act as a huge carbon sink and save millions of dollars in storm damage every year. What is stopping us from doing it?

A new study reveals restoring mangroves could save $800 million in storm damage, protect 140,000 people from flooding, and remove almost triple the amount of CO2 produced by cars in the U.S. every year.

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Scientists find 2 marsupial species, thought to have gone extinct 6,000 years ago, living in the forests of New Guinea

The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, two marsupials believed to have died out thousands of years ago, are still alive in Papuan Indonesia.

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'Striking' footage captures the moment a red fox preys on a wolf pup — a behavior never seen on film before

Scientists in Italy captured a red fox entering a den as part of a project to understand wolf population dynamics in the country.

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China puts a sodium-ion battery into an EV for the first time — it can drive 248 miles on a single charge

A new vehicle is the first mass-produced passenger EV with a viable sodium-based alternative to conventional lithium-ion batteries.

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'City killer' asteroid will narrowly miss the moon, James Webb Telescope reveals

The "city killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth or the moon when it whizzes by in 2032, the latest James Webb Space Telescope observations confirm.

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Groundbreaking new drug shows promise for treating children with a devastating form of epilepsy

An experimental treatment reduces seizures and other symptoms in children with a type of epilepsy called Dravet syndrome.

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Scientists taught robots to swim through mazes using Einstein's relativity

The tiny bots follow patterns of light and "artificial space-time," navigating like craft following the curved space around a black hole.

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The sword in the sea: How one lucky graduate student found his second Crusader sword while taking a swim off Israel's coast

A 12th-century sword spotted jutting out of the seabed in Israel was designed for one-handed combat during the Crusades.

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Sodium-ion batteries are getting ready for prime time. How can they improve EVs?

With potential safety improvements and lower manufacturing costs, Na-ion batteries are coming of age at precisely the right time.

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