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July 15, 2024 CONNECT WITH LIVESCIENCE      Amazing science every day SIGN UP ⋅   WEBSITE   TOP SCIENCE NEWS (Thalia Nitz, courtesy RCU/University of Western Australia/University of Sydney) 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. Read More 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. Read More PLANET EARTH (VOJTa Herout via Shutterstock) 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. Read More LA may be spared 'horrifying' fate of the 'Big One' from San Andreas, simulation suggests (Cavan Images / Toby Harriman via Getty Images) 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.  Full Story: Live Science (7/12)  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. Read More HEALTH (CIPhotos via Getty Images) HIV prevention drug found 100% effective in clinical trial The drug, lenacapavir, provided better protection than other preventive medications. Read More 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. Read More DAILY QUIZ What gives honey its antimicrobial properties? (Learn the answer here.) Hydrogen peroxide High sugar content Gluconic, acetic, formic, and citric acids All of the above

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