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How to Fake a Fossil: Palaeontologists Reveal the Surprisingly Simple Method
The toolkit for faking a fossil overlaps almost entirely with legitimate preparation techniques, and palaeontologists who study fraud say the most dangerous fakes are composites of real bones — meaning chemical tests pass while the joins go undetected.
Ancient Egyptian Princesses Were Trained Archers — Their Bones Prove It
New bioarchaeological research on royal mummies from the Dahshur necropolis shows that ancient Egyptian princesses, including Princess Ita, developed skeletal signatures consistent with habitual bow training — and functional weapons buried alongside them reinforce the finding.
NASA’s Roman Telescope Could Detect 400 Rogue Planets — Each Visible for Hours
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could detect roughly 400 Earth-mass rogue planets drifting starless through the Milky Way, using gravitational microlensing events that last only hours — though researchers caution the forecast carries enormous uncertainty.
Ancient Amazon Civilization May Have Held 3 Million People, LiDAR Reveals
Airborne laser scanning is dismantling the long-held idea that the Amazon was too poor to sustain large societies, uncovering planned cities and engineered landscapes that may have supported millions before European contact.
SpaceX Rocket’s Moon Crash Exposes a Real Hazard Lunar Bases Can’t Ignore
A 4.5-ton SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage struck the moon near Einstein Crater on August 5, and experts warn the uncontrolled impact illustrates a growing, underappreciated hazard for future lunar settlements — one that will only worsen as mission traffic accelerates.
A T. rex Sprint Would Have Shattered Its Own Legs, Science Shows
A 2017 biomechanical study found that a T. rex running at blockbuster speeds would have shattered its own leg bones — one of many ways cinema has hardwired a false picture of how dinosaurs actually moved.Load More
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