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"Remains of hundreds of 7,000-year-old 'standing stone circles' discovered in Saudi Arabia."

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Remains of hundreds of 7,000-year-old 'standing stone circles' discovered in Saudi Arabia

Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have now excavated eight ancient stone circles that likely served as homes to people more than 7,000 years ago.

HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY

(Visualization of the Žiga Koka LiDAR data)

Mysterious Maya underground structure unearthed in Mexico

Archaeologists in Campeche, Mexico, have found an underground structure beneath a Maya ball court, as well as offerings on top of a Maya pyramid at another site.

PLANET EARTH

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Norway's Dragon's Eye: The fantastical 'pothole' that emerged from ice 16,000 years ago

Norway's photogenic "Dragon's Eye" likely formed around 20,000 years ago, when all of Scandinavia sat beneath an enormous mass of ice called the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet.

LA may be spared 'horrifying' fate of the 'Big One' from San Andreas, simulation suggests

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A new simulation of the shaking from a magnitude 7.8 south San Andreas earthquake suggests that Los Angeles might avoid a worst-case scenario.

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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

(NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)/ Decarli et. at / INAF / A&A 2024)

James Webb Space Telescope sees an ancient black hole dance with colliding galaxies

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed the dramatic dance between a supermassive black hole-powered quasar and merging galaxies less than a billion years after the Big Bang.

HEALTH

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HIV prevention drug found 100% effective in clinical trial

The drug, lenacapavir, provided better protection than other preventive medications.

ANIMALS

(Emma Neave Webb/BDMLR)

Entire pod of 89 pilot whales dies on Scottish beach in freak mass stranding

Dozens of long-finned pilot whales have beached and died on Sanday in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, in the biggest mass stranding the country has seen since 1995.

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