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  • UNITED KINGDOM - FEBRUARY 08:  Detail from an engraving by Josiah Wood Whymper from 'Phenomena of Nature', published in London in 1849 for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 'In marshy and boggy places, a light is sometimes seen to hover over the ground by night, appearing from a distance like a taper gleaming from some cottage window. The light is caused by the lighting up of an inflammable gas produced by decaying animal and vegetable matter in bogs, marshes and stagnant pools. It is found that when damp soils are drained, the Will-o'-the-Wisp disappears.'  (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)
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    Sparks between microscopic bubbles could explain the ghostly, glowing will-o’-the-wisps, study finds
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    Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to scientist trio for Harry Potter-like work in molecular architecture
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  • A harvest moon rises in the sky in Zagreb, Croatia, in September 2024.
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    October’s full harvest moon is the first supermoon of the year. Here’s when to see it
  • Planet Y? Astronomers find fresh clues of hidden world in our solar system
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  • Rogue planet has a record growth rate of 6.6 billion tons per second

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  • More than 1,000 silver and gold coins were uncovered this summer off Florida's Atlantic coast.
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    Excavators find $1 million in gold coins from Spanish shipwreck along Florida’s ‘Treasure Coast’
  • Archaeologists have uncovered a sunken ancient Egyptian port. Is it connected to Cleopatra?
  • Elusive shipwreck found in Lake Michigan over 100 years after sinking
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    Trio of physicists win Nobel Prize for revealing ‘bizarre properties’ of the quantum world
  • Scientists used ants to make yogurt. Diners in a Michelin-starred restaurant ate it
  • Nobel Prize in medicine goes to trio of scientists for discovering how the immune system is kept in check
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    Rudolf Hima
    Researchers spot rare evidence of how two baby pterosaurs died 150 million years ago
  • Dinosaur eggs from China found to be around 86 million years old, according to ‘atomic clock’ dating
  • Researchers unearthed skeleton of extinct ‘hypercarnivore’ that had a taste for dinosaurs
  • New dinosaur species with striking sail-like back discovered
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