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Pottery made more than 1800 years ago by Aboriginal communities on Jiigurru in the Lizard Island group in the Great Barrier Reef is the oldest ever found in Australia. …
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Astronomers caught the bizarre ‘awakening’ of an incredibly rare magnetic star. …
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Roughly half of people surveyed support the development of autonomous vehicles. But a third were undecided about many aspects and will need to be convinced about their safety and other benefits. …
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Textbooks often show Earth’s orbit around the Sun as an almost egg-shaped ellipse. The real story is very different. …
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A secret, years-long project to implant a backdoor in a widely used free software tool was only foiled by luck. …
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We can’t rule out the possibility today’s earthquake was not even the biggest event in this sequence, although as time passes the likelihood of a larger associated event decreases. …
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A zap with a laser in the lab confirmed the extraterrestrial origins of enigmatic lumps of glass found in the Northern Territory. …
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The extinction of the dinosaurs sparked an explosion of bird species, according to the largest-ever study of bird genetics. …
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People with aphantasia can’t imagine seeing things in their mind. People with ‘deep aphantasia’ may have no inner voice, either, and different real-world visual experiences. …
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A new change to Meta’s apps will see users no longer recommended political content by default. The ramifications of this will be far-reaching. …
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