Sam Lynes

Excavations of a dried-up lake have uncovered 550 bronze artifacts and skeletal remains that are more than three millennia old, and they have also shed light on an ancient ritual.

These artifacts were discovered at the bottom of Lake Papowo-Biskupe in Poland. It is noted that the findings revealed how rituals were performed by the people known as the Chelmno people, who trace their roots back to a period from 1,200 B.C. to 450 B.C., falling in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age.

It is noted that this people was a representative of the Lusatian culture prevalent in Poland at that time. It was previously thought that metal artifacts were not important to Chelmno, but excavations have shown that this was far from the case. Researchers claim that artifacts excavated with human remains indicate a connection between burial and metal rituals conducted in large bodies of water.

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The world’s largest deep-sea coral reef, the size of which is comparable to the American state of Vermont, was discovered off the southeastern coast of the United States, as stated in a publication in Geomatics. It is noted that the darkness-dwelling “ghost” corals probably support a large variety of marine creatures that were not known to exist.
During their research work, scientists compared data from 31 one mapping probes with sonars and 23 underwater vehicles used to create a map of the Blake Plateau, a huge shelf located about 160 kilometers from the U.S. coastline between the states of North Carolina and Florida.

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Many people have encountered situations when they inadvertently tied a knot on headphones or shoelaces that could not be untangled, but few expect to become a record-breaker thanks to this. Scientists, for their part, have done just that by accidentally tying the smallest and tightest knot, the size of which is only 54 atoms.

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences were conducting chemical reactions to create tiny chains of gold, and one of them went awry, causing the chain to tie itself into a trefoil knot that looks like a pretzel.

When scientists analyzed the knot in more detail, it turned out that it set two records. It is noted that due to the fact that it consisted of only 54 atoms, it broke the record of the smallest knot in the world, which was previously 69 atoms. In addition, this knot was also the tightest, as the chain crossing coefficient was 23 units, while the previous record of the tightest knot was estimated at 24.

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A team of researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in the US presented their findings, which show that each successive year of education at school or university contributes to a 2% reduction in the risk of dying from any cause.

Scientists have studied the data of over 600 scientific publications, which consider the relationship between the level of education and life expectancy of a person. It is noted that experts have studied articles from 59 countries, including both industrially developed, such as the U.S. or EU countries, and developing countries, in particular, China, Brazil and many others.

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According to American billionaire Ilon Musk, about a billion humanoid robots may appear on our planet in 15 years. In this, Musk is in solidarity with the previously voiced opinion of AI expert David Holtz.
The latter wrote in a social network that, in addition to robots on Earth, in 35-40 years about a hundred billion of the same creatures will already appear in the solar system.

Ilon Musk is impressed by such forecasts, but he clarified: such a scenario has a chance of being realized only if our civilization remains stable at its core.

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