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Rare Australian pink diamonds emerged when a supercontinent broke up

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Published On :: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 17:00:47 +0100

Understanding how the world’s largest-known collection of pink diamonds came to the surface in Australia around 1.3 billion years ago could help us find hidden deposits elsewhere in the world

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Sun-blocking dust from asteroid impact drove the dinosaur extinction

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:00:35 +0000

The Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago filled the sky with fine silicate dust, which blocked out sunlight and lingered for 15 years

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Vast submerged area near Australia may once have hosted 500,000 people

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:13:45 +0000

An area of the seabed north of Australia has been mapped in detail for the first time, revealing that large numbers of people could have lived there until it was inundated by rising seas

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Siberia’s mysterious exploding craters may be caused by hot gas

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 08:00:20 +0000

Several enormous craters left by explosions have been spotted in Siberia over the past 15 years, and a new explanation links them to hot gas – and climate change

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Stark, haunting images show Kazakhstan's former nuclear testing ground

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 18:00:00 +0000

These stunning photographs are all shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Awards 2024

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Greenland landslide caused freak wave that shook Earth for nine days

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 20:00:02 +0100

Seismologists were mystified by a strange signal that persisted for nine days in 2023 – now its source has been identified as a standing wave caused by a landslide in Greenland

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Next Mauna Loa eruption could be forecast months in advance

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:00:36 +0000

An analysis of crystals in lava from the 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa has revealed an unknown magma reservoir within the volcano, which could extend forecasts of eruptions from minutes to months

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Astronauts could hitch a ride on asteroids to get to Venus or Mars

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 18:00:47 +0000

Asteroids that regularly fly between Earth, Venus and Mars could provide radiation shielding for human missions to explore neighbouring planets

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Mountaineering astronauts and bad spelling? It's advertising's future

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:00:00 +0000

Feedback digs into a baffling ad for a mobile game and identifies a new and devilish way to advertise a product online: make it as confusing as possible to encourage people to click (it worked on Feedback)

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Chimps do better at difficult tasks when they have an audience

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:00:33 +0000

An analysis of thousands of cognitive tests carried out by chimpanzees finds that the number of spectators influenced their performance in different ways depending on the difficulty of the task

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Audio AIs are trained on data full of bias and offensive language

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 15:29:39 +0000

Seven major datasets used to train audio-generating AI models are three times more likely to use the words "man" or "men" than "woman" or "women", raising fears of bias

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Next Mauna Loa eruption could be forecast months in advance

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:00:36 +0000

An analysis of crystals in lava from the 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa has revealed an unknown magma reservoir within the volcano, which could extend forecasts of eruptions from minutes to months

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Indigenous Australians have managed land with fire for 11,000 years

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:00:20 +0000

Lake sediments reveal the ancient history of Aboriginal people’s use of fire to manage the landscape, a tradition that has benefits for biodiversity

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Ancient people carved mysterious symbols near dinosaur footprints

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 10:28:46 +0000

A unique site in Brazil features rock carvings closely associated with dinosaur tracks, suggesting prehistoric people saw the footprints as meaningful

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Australia’s Indigenous people were making pottery over 2000 years ago

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:00:58 +0100

An excavation on an island in the Coral Sea shows that Indigenous Australians were producing ceramics long before the arrival of Europeans

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Early humans took northern route to Australia, cave find suggests

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 22 May 2024 15:00:21 +0100

An excavation on Timor reveals humans first settled on the island 44,000 years ago, long after the earliest occupation of Australia – suggesting migration to the latter took another route

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Ancient artefacts suggest Australian ritual endured for 12,000 years

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Mon, 01 Jul 2024 17:00:43 +0100

Wooden sticks found in an Australian cave appear to match the accounts of a 19th-century anthropologist, suggesting the GurnaiKurnai people practised the same ritual at the end of the last glacial period

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Ancient Denisovans hunted snow leopards on the Tibetan plateau

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 03 Jul 2024 17:00:00 +0100

Thousands of bones found in a Tibetan cave have been analysed to learn how mysterious ancient humans known as Denisovans lived

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Haunting photos bring fictional female explorers to life

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 03 Jul 2024 19:00:00 +0100

Tonje Bøe Birkeland's photographs imagine the exploits of fictional female scientists and adventurers from the past

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Ancient plant artefact reveals humanity's epic journey to Australia

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 01:01:07 +0100

We know that modern humans took one of two routes to first reach Australia, and now an ancient chunk of plant resin has tipped the evidence towards the northern option

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Most Older Adults Plan to Travel Soon, With Precautions: Poll

By www.medicinenet.com
Published On :: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 00:00:00 PDT

Title: Most Older Adults Plan to Travel Soon, With Precautions: Poll
Category: Health News
Created: 11/17/2021 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 11/17/2021 12:00:00 AM

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