Scientists discovered that tiny amounts of lead in ancient ink can make writing inside burned papyrus scrolls stand out dramatically in X-ray scans.
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Scientists burned their own scrolls to unlock a 2,000-year-old mystery
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Black hole jets reach far beyond galaxies' visible edges, potentially deciding their fate
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WorldPingGalaxies are enormous and hold hundreds of billions of stars. These stars form from cold, dense gas. Every large galaxy, including the Milky Way, is wrapped in a huge envelope of gas called the circumgalactic medium, or CGM.
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Scientists have found that a famous 2-billion-year-old chemical signature, once thought to record a massive global change in Earth’s carbon cycle, may instead have been produced by local magma, hydrocarbons, and methane-eating microbes.
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WorldPingChina's economy and tech have developed at breakneck speed, but there is plenty worrying its Gen Z.
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