At a little-known historical site from the Mayan Empire in Guatemala, the jade funerary mask of a great king was discovered by archaeologists. In the country’s northeastern state of Peten, the city of Chochkitam, which dates to the Pre-Classic Period of Mayan history, was first discovered in 1909, but a chamber…
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An ancient lake bed found on Mars may hold evidence of life on the planet, a new study has revealed. The Mars Perseverance rover has confirmed that the Jezero crater at some point was filled with water, leaving lake sediments at its base. If life ever existed on the planet, then…
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The fountain of youth has eluded explorers for ages. It turns out, the magic anti-aging elixir might have been inside us all along. Corina Amor Vegas and colleagues at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have discovered that T cells can be reprogrammed to fight aging—and they can have “lifelong effects”. Given…
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A bold design for an vertical take-off aeroplane has received advanced grant funding from NASA with the aim of having it ready to fly on Mars in the next 6 years. MAGGIE (Mars Aerial and Ground Global Intelligent Explorer) is a compact fixed-wing electric aircraft powered by solar energy to fly…
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In an ever more digital world, pen and paper are increasingly getting replaced with screens and keyboards in classrooms. Now, a new study has investigated neural networks in the brain during hand and typewriting and showed that connectivity between different brain regions is more elaborate when letters are formed by hand….
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In fantasy fiction, the dragon is one of the most common mythical beasts, but these giant flying lizards defy the reality that flying lizards have actually been found on Earth through many once upon a times—they were just really small. Case and point is this small fry from 200 million years…
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Dopamine—the same chemical signal that drives us to seek out everything from water to intimacy to cocaine, leaves a lasting imprint on the brains of monogamous animals, a new study reveals. While the role of oxytocin, also known as the ‘love hormone’ has been well studied in the context of human…
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