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Five Ways the World of the Dinosaurs Looked Different From Ours, Beyond the Presence of the 'Terrible Lizards' (opens the original)
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Imagine waking up in another time. A time of incredible dinosaurs. From the pages of 19th-century novels to the screens playing summer blockbusters, countless stories have entertained the scenario. They almost always envision the great reptiles within thick and humid jungles, where tiny mammals shriek and scurry away from sharp-toothed shadows. But the forests and swamps where most dinosaurs roamed didn’t resemble modern habitats. And the mammals of the time were not all so meek. Between the Tri
Some Fish in the Great Lakes Might Be More Than 400 Years Old, a Study Suggests, Outliving Around 15 Generations of Humans (opens the original)
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In the early 17th century, a refined version of the first telescope spotted some moons of the planet Jupiter, which is up to 54 light-minutes away. Horse riding was the fastest mode of land transportation, and smallpox ran rampant. Now, 400 years later, we have spotted a galaxy that is 13.5 billion light-years away. The fastest crewed train in the world has touched a speed of 375 miles per hour. Weâve completely eradicated smallpox. And some fish in the Great Lakes may have been alive this ent
Peptides Are All the Rage, Promising Miracle Cures and Makeovers Delivered by Injection. How Did We Get Here? (opens the original)
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Peptides seem like they’re everywhere: on social media, on medical spa menus and beyond. Name your problem, and you can probably find a peptide—with a cryptic moniker like BPC-157 or GHK-Cu—that promises to help. A few years ago, these drugs belonged to the world of bodybuilder message boards and the dark web. Today, they’re sold via polished websites with a medical gloss, with each peptide promising to deliver a remarkable benefit, such as weight loss, younger-looking skin or muscle repair. In
Researchers Have Figured Out How to Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field (opens the original)
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Forgers, beware. Researchers just discovered how to determine whether any piece of pottery is ancient or not—by reading its magnetic signatures. A team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, details their new method in a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Per a statement from the institute, the technique could help weed out falsified archaeological artifacts around the world. “I hope that our new metho
Spainâs White-Headed Ducks Have a Signature Color Right in the Name. And That Isnât Even Their Most Remarkable Hue (opens the original)
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From their whisk-broom tails to malesâ bright sky-blue bills, white-headed ducks are among the oddest in the world. Mild-mannered outside of breeding season, they star in a spectacular springtime courtship display in the wetlands of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. Come spring, males perform a series of intricate dances that include sideways swimming, exuberant splashing and beating their puffed-up neck feathers with their bills to produce bubble trails. Their exceptiona
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