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  • A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket launches on NASA's EscaPADE mission, which is carrying two satellites to orbit Mars, from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., November 13, 2025. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
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    Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches landmark Mars mission in New Glenn rocket’s first big test
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  • This animation proviced by Itiner-e shows a recently discovered milestone along a mountain road in the rough Cilicia area of Turkey.
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    Stunning map of ancient roads will give you a good reason to think about the Roman Empire more often
  • Oldest and biggest Maya temple was built to depict the cosmos
  • Scientists are one step closer to testing ancient skeletons for pregnancy
  • Vulture nests in Spain reveal a centuries-old sandal and other stunning cultural artifacts

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  • One of the newly described toad species, Nectophrynoides luhomeroensis
    John Lyakurwa
    Newly identified species of Tanzanian tree toad leapfrog the tadpole stage and give birth to toadlets
  • Scientist turns people’s mental images into text using ‘mind-captioning’ technology
  • Researchers say they verified and sequenced Hitler’s DNA. What they discovered is a controversial bombshell
  • Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects

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    Xavier Panadès
    Ancient eggshells shed new light on crocodiles that hunted prey from trees
  • Mating injuries may lead scientists to identify dinosaurs’ sex
  • ‘Dueling dinosaurs’ fossil forces a radical rethink of T. rex remains
  • New research upends theory that Indigenous Australians hunted large animals to extinction
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