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Kelly Graf and co-authors report a 13,800-year-old camp in interior Alaska holding the oldest known needles in the Western Hemisphere. Stone tools from the camp resemble Siberian types, a link between eastern Beringia and northeast Asia.
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Landowner Khaled el-Shahat found two giant Ramesses II statues at Behbeit El Hagar in northern Egypt, and the antiquities ministry sent a team to excavate. Live Science says they add to the evidence of the king's investment in the Isis temple site.
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Programs in China, Japan, the UK and the US are each targeting test launches of space-based solar power within five years, Live Science reports. Whether the power can be delivered at a price anyone would pay is a separate question.
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A 2026 US study recorded more than 90,000 off-label testosterone prescriptions to women in 2025, up 58.7% from 2024. The FDA has not approved the hormone for menopause, and the only positive trial signal described is for low sexual desire.
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A study with UC San Diego co-authors scanned 114 adults with chronic back pain after a provoked flare and saw default mode network activity rise. An outside neuroscientist praised the design but said lingering pain or anxiety could also explain the signal.
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Researchers found French ancestry in all 45 people sequenced from Montreal's Notre-Dame Cemetery, with no recent Indigenous or African admixture. It bears on Quebec family stories of Indigenous ancestry, but it describes one small cemetery sample.
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Researchers at Washington State University and the University of Michigan slowed endometriosis lesion spread in mice with a repackaged tapeworm drug. The treatment also reduced inflammation, and the team is working toward clinical trials for a disease with limited treatment options.
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Two George Washington University physicists say asking GPT-2 the same questions in a different order can turn its answers from desirable to concerning. They also claim a simple formula predicts the tipping point, but an outside AI lecturer says the results did not yield significant evidence.
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Oxford-led excavators at Great Zimbabwe have found jade-green Longquan celadon, a Chinese pottery first made around A.D. 950. Chirikure, who leads the dig, says the sherds are scarce and perhaps elite goods. The find establishes contact. Its scale is unknown.
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Researchers dated Oklahoma's Ames crater to 370 million years ago, 97 million years after the Ordovician impacts it was grouped with. That is about 2 million years after the Late Devonian extinction began, though the authors say the impact did not cause it.
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A 16-year-old in California hallucinating a flying green dinosaur was diagnosed with autoimmune encephalitis during a hospital stay of almost two months. It is one patient, so it cannot say how often psychosis with abnormal vital signs has an autoimmune cause.
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More than 300 southern right whale calves have died in Argentine Patagonia since June, against a previous record of 113 in 2012. Tests found the bacterium E. rhusiopathiae, known in these whales since 2013, but researchers cannot say what changed.
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Archaeologists in Russia's Kuban region report an elite Maeotian warrior grave dated to the early first century B.C. by two gold coins. Both show Alexander the Great, yet they were struck under Mithridates Eupator, born 188 years after Alexander died.
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A study co-authored at the University of Latvia finds sharp-force wounds on three of the six people in a ninth-century grave. A co-author says a Viking raid cannot be proved, though the date keeps it possible.
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A 2019 study that pooled 129 published estimates put the Americas' Indigenous population in 1492 at 60.5 million, against Dobyns' 112 million in 1983. Live Science reports newer work places North America's peak several centuries before Europeans arrived, so 1492 is a shaky baseline for the collapse.
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Sea surface temperatures in the Pacific's Niño 3.4 region passed 30 degrees Celsius for the first time, preliminary data released Oct. 5 show. On the anomaly measures that remove global ocean warming, the event is already close to the strongest El Niño on record, Timothy Osborn of the University of East Anglia told Live Science.
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Florida has 252 locally caught dengue cases this year, more than five times any of the prior four years at this date, a University of Florida researcher said. Hillsborough County, around Tampa, accounts for 223 of them, so most of the jump is one county's outbreak, far north of the Miami-area clusters Florida sees every year.
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Draconid meteors peak Oct. 8-9 at about 10 an hour, best seen just after dark, with the new moon on Oct. 10 keeping the sky dark. That is a modest forecast for a shower that, according to NASA, put 500 meteors a minute over Europe in 1933.
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Clinicians traced a 65-year-old Michigan woman's hallucinations to weeks of taking more than 7.5 grams of aspirin a day, according to a case report. Its authors want poisoning, including salicylate toxicity, considered whenever psychotic symptoms have no clear cause.
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Hessen Archaeology has found a temple to Mars, with remains of a Mars statue and a likely Victory figure, beside the Kapersburg Roman fort north of Frankfurt. It lies in what excavators take to be the fort's craft area, so who built it, soldiers or civilians, is still open.
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