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7,000-year-old monument three times bigger than Stonehenge discovered in Poland

A huge Stone Age monument has been discovered in Poland, and researchers report the site is 360 feet in diameter, making it three times larger than Stonehenge. It is believed the site was used by Neolithic people for at least 250 years, with new features added to it along the way.

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New spin quantum battery can be charged without an external field

Over the past few years, some researchers have been working on alternative energy storage systems that leverage the principles of quantum mechanics. These systems, known as quantum batteries, could be more efficient and compact than conventional battery technologies, while also achieving faster charging times.

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Possible bigfoot sighting by hiker in Pine Barrens 5 miles SW of Beachwood (Report 77867)

Class B; November 2024; New Jersey, Ocean County

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Cosmological model proposes dark matter production during pre-Big Bang inflation

As physicists continue their struggle to find and explain the origin of dark matter, the approximately 80% of the matter in the universe that we can’t see and so far haven’t been able to detect, researchers have now proposed a model where it is produced before the Big Bang.

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Why timekeeping is now on the verge of a giant leap forward in accuracy

Time is vital to the functioning of our everyday lives: from the watches on our wrists to the GPS systems in our phones. Communication systems, power grids, and financial transactions all rely on precision timing. Seconds are the vital units of measurement in timekeeping.

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Weird-smelling burrito turned out to be marijuana in aluminum foil wrapping, N.J. cops find

An Uber Eats driver detected an odd smell from a burrito meal he picked up and pulled over to call the police; officers posted that they are “cooking up an investigation”

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Promising strategy leverages atomic displacements to control quantum properties of a vanadate perovskite

Perovskites, materials with a crystal structure that mirrors that of the mineral calcium titanate CaTiO₃, exhibit properties that are advantageous for developing various technologies. For instance, they have proved promising for designing photovoltaic (PV) systems and electronic devices.

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Researchers discover new 91-million-year-old giant shark species in Kansas

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Deep in the heart of northern Kansas, researchers excavated farmland that used to be under the ocean and ended up finding a brand new species of shark that lurked beneath the surface around 91 million years ago.

During the middle to the late Cretaceous period, the region of the United […]

Ranks of Hispanic officers reaching record levels at NYPD

Det. Joseph Ayala, president of the NYPD Hispanic Society, said the agency has worked toward “creating a more representative force [to] reflect the…communities they serve”

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Wrong-way detection systems saving lives in as Conn. preps for busy holiday travel week

More than 120 wrong-way detection systems have been installed on high-risk highway ramps in an effort to curb a sharp rise in fatal crashes over the past five years

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‘Marching orders haven’t changed’: New Artemis mobile launcher takes shape amid uncertain future

Months after an alarmist review from NASA’s Office of the Inspector General, hundreds of construction workers seem out to prove their critics wrong as progress picks up steam on the Artemis program’s mobile launcher 2, the platform atop which future versions of the powerful Space Launch System rocket will launch.

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Ill. officer fatally wounded in shooting

Detective Allan Reddins was killed when responding to a call involving a person armed with a gun who was seen leaving a bank

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Unusual twin Viking boat graves discovered in Norway by archaeologists

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Archaeologists made a fascinating find in Norway recently by uncovering not just one ancient Viking boat grave, but two. And the mysterious bit is that the man and the woman in the double grave were buried 100 years apart.

Vikings often buried important members of their society inside boat graves, […]

Possible camp stalking by a bigfoot 30 miles southwest of Durham (Report 77962)

Class B; November 2012; North Carolina, Chatham County

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How much are asteroids really worth?

Popular media love talking about asteroid mining using big numbers. Many articles talk about a mission to Psyche, the largest metallic asteroid in the asteroid belt, as visiting a body worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000, presumably because their authors like hitting the “0” key on their keyboards a lot. But how realistic is that valuation? And what does […]