Farewell, Opportunity: rover dies, but its hugely successful Mars mission is helping us design the next one

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Opportunity in Endurance Crater. NASA Andrew Coates , UCL NASA’s Opportunity rover on Mars h...

How Ancient Cultures Explained Comets and Meteors

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An artist’s rendition of 2016 WF9 as it passes Jupiter’s orbit inbound toward the sun. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Eve MacDonald , Ca...

Ancient Greek music: now we finally know what it sounded like

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The God Apollon Playing The Cithara, Marble, Miletus(Balat, Söke), Roman Period, 2nd. cen. AD., İstanbul Archaeological Museums. Photo:...

From washing machines to computers: how the ancients invented the modern world

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A Sun Dial, Ephesus Museum. Photo: instagram.com/ancientpix Zena Kamash ,  Royal Holloway True innovation is hard to find, as few th...

Now that TESS is Operational, Astronomers Estimate it’ll Find 14,000 Planets. 10 Could Be Earthlike Worlds in a Sunlike Star’s Habitable Zone

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A new study from Thomas Barclay of NASA and the University of Maryland, Joshua Pepper at Lehigh University, and Elisa Quintana of NASA, has...

Roman gladiators were war prisoners and criminals, not sporting heroes

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Venetio Relief, Roman Period, Nysa Ancient City, Aydın Museum. Photo: instagram.com/ancientpix Alastair Blanshard , The University of Q...

Why did Tutankhamun have a dagger made from a meteorite?

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Head of Tutankhamun, Met Museum. Diane Johnson , The Open University Scientists have long speculated that the ancient Egyptians used ...

Will China's moon landing launch a new space race?

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What will China discover on the far side of the moon? BeeBright/Shutterstock.com Wendy Whitman Cobb , Ca...

Rainfall clues link climate change to Maya collapse

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Pyramid of the Magician in Uxmal, ancient Maya city. Yucatan, Mexico. Image: Dreamstime.com - @Publicdomainphotos ID 116733902 Ancien...

Claros Prophecy Centre

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Claros(Prophecy Centre), a place where the concept of world citizenship adopted.Claros was an ancient Greek sanctuary on the coast of Ion...

Alexander The Great

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Alexander The Great, İstanbul Archaeological Museums. Alexander The Great was King of Macedonia, Pharaoh of Egypt and Monarch of Asia. ...

Teos Ancient City Olive Trees

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Teos is located in Sığacık Neighborhood, Seferihisar District, İzmir Province of Turkey. It is one of the twelve Ionian Cities on the ...

Magnesia Ancient City

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Magnesia Ancient City Stadion Magnesia Ancient City reffered as " Magnesia ad Maeandrum " or " Magnesia on the Maeande...