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In 1901, construction workers found a rich Roman coffin that proved ancient Britain was highly diverse
In Victorian Bath, a street-widening crew uncovered a hidden 2,000-year-old Roman bathing complex
In 1952, a London construction crew cleared Blitz rubble and uncovered a secret 1,800-year-old Roman temple
In 1922, an Egyptian worker hit a hidden stone step that uncovered the untouched tomb of King Tutankhamun
Chinese scientists find a “human speech circuit” in monkey brains and it could change speech therapy forever
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A New Hampshire teen used sunlight to clean dirty water and caught the EPA’s attention
Scientists discover Earth passing through ancient supernova debris hidden in Antarctic ice
How aeroplane tyres handle the massive impact of jet landings
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NASA’s MAVEN detects the Zwan-Wolf effect at Mars revealing how solar storms reshape the Martian ionosphere
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An 11-year-old saw Flint’s water crisis on the news and built a device to test drinking water for lead
A 14-year-old Irish teen built a way to pull microplastics from water using magnetised liquid
Hidden beneath Lake Huron, Ice Age hunting structures reveal a lost world
A buried crater beneath the Atlantic changed how scientists read Canada’s coastline
Scientists discover 85 hidden lakes beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet
Hidden microbes beneath the Ross Ice Shelf are reshaping how scientists understand life without sunlight
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Gold growing on leaves? Scientists uncovered a strange forest phenomenon in Finland
A 15-year-old built an ocean-powered generator for just $12 and it could bring electricity to remote villages
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Explained: Why the world always has 9% left-handed people
Garage prodigy: 14-year-old boy built a nuclear fusion device in his parents’ garage
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Through Nasa's Hubble Telescope: A journey across the universe
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Scientists found a massive 19-mile crater buried beneath Greenland’s ice
In 1958, an Illinois man cracked open an ordinary rock and found a 300-million-year-old ‘monster’
In 1890, a Russian gold miner’s shovel hit a ‘face’ in the mud to uncover a 12,000-year-old giant older than Stonehenge
‘There are 4 humans in these pixels’: Giant telescope tracks Artemis 2 around the Moon
An 8-year-old saw ants dragging tiny oak galls in his backyard, and scientists later discovered a hidden trick inside
Scientists hiking in Alaska saw sunset reveal thousands of dinosaur tracks hidden in the rocks
Pompeii victim may have been a Roman doctor fleeing Vesuvius with his medical tools
Scientists discover a giant deep-sea shell nearly 6 kilometres beneath the Pacific and name it after a ‘sea god’
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In 1940, a scientist testing a cracked silicon slab uncovered a hidden effect that helped build modern electronics
In 1985, three chemists spotted an unexpected soccer-ball molecule that reshaped nanotechnology
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Earth healers: Couple planted 2 million trees and brought an entire forest back to life
SpaceX prepares to launch Starship Version 3 rocket: Countdown begins for May 20 launch of upgraded mega rocket
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Scientists have confirmed, mosquitoes have finally invaded one of earth’s last mosquito-free countries
Archaeologists used 1,500-year-old map to uncover a lost city buried under the desert in Jordan
A Canadian lake shaped like a giant emoji suddenly vanished, satellites captured the moment
Quote of the day by Nikola Tesla: “One has to be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
A 5-year-old and her father accidentally discovered a shipwreck that had been missing for more than 150 years
Scientists studied the DNA of a 117-year-old woman and what they found is changing how we understand ageing
Saving planet and pollinators: Morgan Freeman turned his 124-acre ranch into a paradise sanctuary for bees
In 1938, a dockside sorting project took a bizarre turn when a worker pulled a 66-million-year-old ‘extinct’ legend from the daily catch
In 1900, a routine cleanup at a desert cave uncovered a secret wall protecting a 1,000-year-old library
Scientists say ancient Greece was not the plain white world we imagine, and the Parthenon holds the clues
Scientists found a vast magma body under the Andes that may be slowly lifting the mountains
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