Medieval babies and adults buried together in Sweden were not related, archaeologists discover - raising big questions about early Christian burial practices - In an unexpected discovery, researchers found that three medieval Swedish cemeteries held children buried with unrelated adults.

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NASA is creating a fifth state of matter on the ISS following upgrades to mini-fridge-sized quantum lab -- A new set of upgrades to the International Space Station's Cold Atom Laboratory is allowing NASA to probe quantum mechanics at the coldest possible temperatures while in zero gravity. -- Alex Keshavarzi -- Published

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New sodium metal battery design charges in just 4 minutes and retains its capacity for years -- Chinese researchers say they have overcome one of the trickiest problems of battery chemistry by developing a special gel. -- Rory Bathgate -- Published

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Malaria had nearly been eliminated around a giant dam in the Amazon - but then it came roaring back. Experts just discovered why. -- A 15-year study suggests that long-term malaria control may depend as much on protecting environments as it does on sustaining public health programs. -- Olivia Maule -- Published

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Dirty 'button' unearthed by metal detectorist turns out to be a rare 900-year-old coin from Norway's last Viking king, Magnus Barefoot -- A rare coin from the reign of Magnus Barefoot - sometimes called Norway's last Viking king, was mistaken for a button before researchers realized it was the first of its kind found on Norwegian soil. -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry -- Published

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Physicists develop the first working model of quantum mechanics using only 'real' numbers -- Physicists have built a real-number version of quantum mechanics that makes all the same predictions as the standard theory, resolving a question that's simmered since the field began. -- Larissa G. Capella -- Published

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The Milky Way may be wider, heavier, and more lopsided than we realized -- New measurements suggest that two of the Milky Way's spiral arms are around 10% farther away from Earth than we thought. The findings may require experts to revise estimates of the total size of our home galaxy. -- Harry Baker -- Published

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Scientists build tiny 'diving suit' for cockroaches, turning them into search-and-rescue cyborgs -- Researchers in Singapore and Japan have built a waterproof shell for cyborg cockroaches that could be deployed in disaster zones to investigate flooded areas. -- Sascha Pare -- Published

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Quantum computing wielded to create extremely rare material critical to nuclear fusion -- Nuclear fusion inches closer after scientists combine supercomputing, AI and quantum computing to blueprint a way to create more tritium. -- Tristan Greene -- Published

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New robotic heart mimics common, mysterious condition to help researchers study it -- A new robotic heart can recreate different stages of heart failure, potentially giving researchers a new way to test treatments before they reach patients. -- Olivia Maule -- Published

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'Explosive diarrhea' parasite infections confirmed in hundreds of people across US, with 1,251 in Michigan alone -- Michigan has been particularly hard hit by the cyclosporiasis outbreak, with 1,251 cases reported - the highest in the state's history. -- Pandora Dewan -- Published

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100,000 years ago, one of the earliest Homo sapiens outside Africa was stabbed in the face, analysis finds -- A microscopic analysis of the skull of Qafzeh 25 revealed a cut mark likely made by a stone tool 100,000 years ago. -- Kristina Killgrove -- Published

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We remember little to nothing of early childhood - and a recent mouse study may help explain why -- Early in life, neural networks in the brain's memory center are highly connected, and they are only later refined into precise systems, a mouse study finds. -- Roberta McLain -- Published

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Secretive Chinese probe snaps first photo of Earth's mysterious 'quasi-moon' - and it may pose a big problem -- China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has captured the first close-up photo of one of Earth's "quasi-moons," Kamo'oalewa. However, the image and the timing of its release suggest that it may be harder for the probe to collect samples from the space rock than originally planned. -- Harry Baker -- Published

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'What we found was striking': Scientists detect new kind of signal from a black hole's 'point of no return' -- Physicists isolated the "last sound" of an enormous black hole collision, providing an unprecedented glimpse of the region next to the event horizon. -- Andrey Feldman -- Last updated

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'One of the oldest gravestones of a free Black person in America' discovered in Boston -- Experts have identified the gravestone of Boston, a free Black man who died in 1729. -- Kristina Killgrove -- Published

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6,000-year-old broken ribs discovered in Syria may be one of the oldest known cases of child abuse in the world -- Around 6,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, an infant suffered severe injuries in what might be the Middle East's earliest documented case of child abuse. -- Olivia Maule -- Published

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Physicist demonstrates a key theory of time by building a 'mini-universe' in his lab -- By ignoring part of his own experiment, a physicist coaxed time to emerge from within a closed quantum system. -- Larissa G. Capella -- Published

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2,500-year-old tomb of a 'warrior prince' with chariot and helmet discovered on Italy's Adriatic coast -- Archaeologists have excavated a royal burial ground of the Piceni, a mysterious pre-Roman civilization in Italy that is not well known historically. -- Kristina Killgrove -- Published

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Euclid telescope discovers the 2 most ancient monster black holes in the universe ‪-‬ each brighter than a trillion suns -- A collection of newfound objects discovered by the Euclid telescope more than doubles the number of known quasars from the universe's first billion years. -- Olivia Maule -- Published

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