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This Brain Implant Allows People With Paralysis to Speak and Gesture at the Same Time Via a Mind-Controlled Virtual Avatar

The experimental technology is still in the early stage and was fully tested in just two participants. But it could one day ...
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New Research Shows That These Ancient Egyptian Servants May Have Been Brutally Sacrificed and Buried Alongside Their Pharaohs

Forensic research has identified deliberate and fatal wounds on skulls from simple grave sites near First Dynasty royal tombs ...
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These Soldiers Were Buried in an Unmarked Grave During the Revolutionary War. Now, Historians Finally Know Their Names

At a recent memorial ceremony, officials honored 28 Continental soldiers and at least 38 British soldiers who were buried in ...
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What Are Medieval English Coins Doing in Rome? They Could Be Rare Evidence of a ‘Little England’ Enclave That Received Special Papal Privileges

Researchers argue that the tenth-century coins provide new evidence of a bustling English community located next to the ...
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Georgia Michelman

Georgia Michelman is a New York-based science and health journalist and Smithsonian magazine’s current intern from the 2026 class of New York University’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting ...
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This Lollipop Could Help Blind Women Independently Detect Pregnancy

Design student Sneha Rao is developing Tact, an edible pregnancy test that allows people with vision impairment to feel its ...
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A Diver Volunteered to Clean Up Trash From a Wisconsin Lake. He Discovered a 1,000-Year-Old Dugout Canoe at the Bottom Instead

Indigenous communities near present-day Milwaukee hand-carved the white-oak vessel before shaping it with fire between ...
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Could 2026 Be a Year With No Atlantic Hurricanes? We’ve Surprisingly Passed Their Peak Month Without Any, Thanks to the El Niño

Atlantic hurricane season runs from June through November, and the last time one passed by without an intense cyclone was more than 100 years ago. While the ongoing "super" El Niño seems to be ...
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11 Fascinating Facts About North American Porcupines

Among North America’s many forest-dwelling creatures, porcupines are one of the most easily recognizable. Still, there are ...
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Trio of Scientists Wins Medicine Nobel for a Method to Turn Nerve Cells On and Off With Light, Helping to Unravel the Brain’s Mysteries

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel received the 2026 award for their contributions to a revolutionary technique ...
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The Red Devils Celebrate 100 Years of Service

Nobody knows precisely how and why a red devil insignia was chosen. But over the past century, the emblem of U.S. Marine ...
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Humans May Have Used These Mysterious Symbols to Encode Information Tens of Thousands of Years Before the First Writing Systems

The team analyzed 260 engraved objects discovered in caves in what is now southwest Germany, including this 40,000-year-old mammoth figurine. Universität Tübingen / Hildegard Jensen, CC-BY-SA 4.0 ...