'One of the oldest gravestones of a free Black person in America' discovered in Boston
Experts have identified the gravestone of Boston, a free Black man who died in 1729.
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6,000-year-old broken ribs discovered in Syria may be one of the oldest known cases of child abuse in the world
Around 6,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, an infant suffered severe injuries in what might be the Middle East's earliest documented case of child abuse.
'Time was speeding up, slowing down, or even stopping': Physicist demonstrates a key theory of time by building a 'mini-universe' in his lab
By ignoring part of his own experiment, a physicist coaxed time to emerge from within a closed quantum system.
2,500-year-old tomb of a 'warrior prince' with chariot and helmet discovered on Italy's Adriatic coast
Archaeologists have excavated a royal burial ground of the Piceni, a mysterious pre-Roman civilization in Italy that is not well-known historically.
Euclid telescope discovers the 2 most ancient monster black holes in the universe — each brighter than a trillion suns
A collection of newfound objects discovered by the Euclid telescope more than doubles the number of known quasars from the universe's first billion years.
Colorful 'painting-like' ripples cover an ancient seafloor structure the Bahamas — Earth from space
A 2020 satellite photo shows off the ethereal beauty of submerged sandbanks and seagrass beds in the Great Bahama Bank. This massive underwater structure is ...
Scientists just created the most lifelike cell ever made in a lab — here's what it could accomplish
SpudCell is a new cell-like platform that can feed, grow and divide like a normal cell — but it's not yet a perfect re-creation of the real thing.
Neanderthals and modern humans may have shared culture 59,000 years ago in Turkey, study finds
Fossils, stone tools and seashells in Turkey show that Neanderthals and the Homo sapiens who moved in later had the same hunting strategies and symbolic trad...
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Heart issues tied to 'microdamage' in the brain might raise risk of memory loss, study hints
When the heart's pumping function gets weaker, areas of the brain linked to memory show early signs of damage, a study finds.
'A new way to study the edge of a black hole': Physicists just got the closest-ever look at a black hole's event horizon
Physicists isolated the 'last sound' of an enormous black hole collision, providing an unprecedented glimpse of the region next to the event horizon.
Diagnostic dilemma: Huge mass in woman's stomach was likely caused by Ozempic-style drug — and dissolved with diet soda
A woman's abdominal discomfort turned out to be caused by a build up of food in her stomach. And the treatment involved diet soda.
James Webb telescope's largest-ever map of the universe unmasks hidden corners
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have created the most detailed map of the cosmic web ever.
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