Category: 9. Sci/Tech
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Rapa Nui’s Famous Moai Statues Really May Have ‘Walked’ Into Place : ScienceAlert
The ancient Polynesians who settled the island of Rapa Nui – formerly known as Easter Island – may have worked out an ingenious way to make their iconic moai statues ‘walk’.
It’s not just local legend; it’s physics, say anthropologists Carl…
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Why you get goosebumps when you’re scared—or inspired
It’s goosebump season. As the nights draw in, temperatures drop, and horror…
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The 400,000-year-old giant skeleton that solved a mystery of early humans
One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream…
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166 million-year-old dinosaur highway discovered in UK quarry
The most extensive dinosaur trackways ever discovered in Europe have been…
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Why Do Sharks Go Into Feeding Frenzies? A Case Study of a Recent, Unusual Attack on a Human Looks for Answers
After multiple dusky sharks killed a swimmer off Israel’s coast this year, scientists investigated what might have triggered the attack in hopes of preventing similar incidents
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He’s been to space, ran NASA and can do 40 pushups at IHOP. Here’s why Bill Nelson thinks Musk must rethink his Mars plan
Biden-era NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is a RINO. No, not the derisive term used by…
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