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Physicists Find a Mathematical Limit to Making Time Run Backward
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Physicists Find a Mathematical Limit to Making Time Run Backward

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LOFAR Takes the Deepest Image of the Low-Frequency Radio Sky to Date
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LOFAR Takes the Deepest Image of the Low-Frequency Radio Sky to Date

Using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), an international team led by Leiden University has produced the sharpest and most sensitive radio image of the sky ever made at low radio frequencies.

CT Scans Reveal the Secret of a Mysterious 400-Year-Old Lock
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CT Scans Reveal the Secret of a Mysterious 400-Year-Old Lock

X-ray scans cracked an Elizabethan padlock’s code, revealing how a centuries-old security mechanism worked without damaging an unusually well-preserved piece of maritime history. For more than 400 years, a brass combination lock recovered from a shipwreck off the Welsh coast kept its secret. Lost when a violent storm wrecked the Ann Francis, the remarkably well-preserved [...]

Ancient Tomb Reveals That People Were Getting High on Cannabis 2,800 Years Ago
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Ancient Tomb Reveals That People Were Getting High on Cannabis 2,800 Years Ago

The oldest directly dated evidence of intoxicating cannabis use comes from a Scythian tomb, suggesting the plant’s mind-altering effects had a place in ancient burial rituals. About 1,000 cannabis seeds recovered from a princely tomb in southern Siberia could not, on their own, tell archaeologists whether anyone had used the plant to get high. Cannabis, [...]

Stonehenge’s Mysterious Six-Ton Stone Has Scientists Searching Across Britain
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Stonehenge’s Mysterious Six-Ton Stone Has Scientists Searching Across Britain

Stonehenge’s six-ton Altar Stone has led scientists from Wales to Scotland, yet even its most detailed geological examination has failed to reveal where it came from. Scientists have spent more than a century trying to determine where Stonehenge’s six-ton Altar Stone came from. Once thought to originate in Wales, the massive sandstone slab has since [...]