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Giant 11,000-Carat Ruby Found in Myanmar Could Be Worth a Fortune
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Giant 11,000-Carat Ruby Found in Myanmar Could Be Worth a Fortune

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Stardust Trapped in Antarctic Ice Reveals Earth's Journey Through The Cosmos
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Stardust Trapped in Antarctic Ice Reveals Earth's Journey Through The Cosmos

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Scientists Solve 100-Year-Old Schrödinger Mystery About Color Perception
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Scientists Solve 100-Year-Old Schrödinger Mystery About Color Perception

Scientists have finally cracked the hidden geometry behind how humans perceive color. New research into how humans perceive color differences is helping resolve questions tied to a theory first proposed nearly 100 years ago by physicist Erwin Schrödinger. A team led by Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Roxana Bujack used geometry to mathematically describe how [...]

That Haunted Feeling May Be Caused by a Sound You Can’t Hear
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That Haunted Feeling May Be Caused by a Sound You Can’t Hear

People exposed to infrasound may not consciously hear it, but they can show higher cortisol levels and increased irritability, which may help explain reports of “haunted” locations. Infrasound refers to sound at very low frequencies, below 20 Hertz (Hz), a range that people usually cannot hear. It can be produced by natural events such as [...]

1,300-Year-Old Secret: Lost Medieval Manuscript Finally Found Hiding in Plain Sight
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1,300-Year-Old Secret: Lost Medieval Manuscript Finally Found Hiding in Plain Sight

Old-fashioned sleuthing and modern technology have led to the discovery of a manuscript containing a poem written by a farm laborer 1,300 years ago. An early 9th-century manuscript containing one of the earliest surviving copies of the first known poem in English has been found in Rome by researchers from Trinity College Dublin. The manuscript, [...]