Read more about the article Scientists Invent Orbiting Lasers To Zap Space Junk
Photo shows Space Debris Removal, undated. Japan firm is developing world-1st debris-zapping laser satellites to tackle space junk. (Orbital Lasers, SKY Perfect JSAT/Newsflash).

Scientists Invent Orbiting Lasers To Zap Space Junk

Japanese scientists have revealed how they plan to use powerful lasers to zap space junk circling the Earth to clear the planet's orbit. Experts say more than a million pieces…

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Read more about the article Roads Closed As Scientists Warn Tower Of Bologna Could Collapse At Any Time
Picture shows Garisenda Tower in Bologna, Italy. It is reportedly at risk of collapsing. (Newsflash)

Roads Closed As Scientists Warn Tower Of Bologna Could Collapse At Any Time

Italy's other leaning tower is at risk of collapse after scientists listening for cracking sounds in the stonework declared it potentially unsafe. Bologna's Garisenda Tower, one of a pair built…

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Read more about the article Researchers Baffled By 3,000-Year-Old Mummified Bees
Picture shows a X-ray micro-CT of a male Eucera inside its nest, undated. Scientists hope to find out more about bees' survival strategies after discovering 3,000-year-old mummified solitary bee larvae in Portugal. (Fernando Muiz, NewsX/Bee)

Researchers Baffled By 3,000-Year-Old Mummified Bees

Scientists hope to find out more about bees' survival strategies after discovering 3,000-year-old mummified solitary bee larvae in Portugal. Researchers from Lisbon and Seville said the bees, which were ready…

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Read more about the article Scientists Learn To ‘Talk’ To Cute Meerkats Using Recordings Of The Noises They Make
Image shows meerkats, undated photo. Researchers study how the species communicate at the Zurich Zoo, Switzerland. (Zurich Zoo, Enzo Franchini/Newsflash)

Scientists Learn To ‘Talk’ To Cute Meerkats Using Recordings Of The Noises They Make

Cute pack of meerkats assembles after a scientist plays their distinctive cry of warning on a small loudspeaker for research purposes. In the footage from Zurich Zoo from 20th September…

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Read more about the article Rare Roman Gladiator Swords Unearthed In Ancient Arms Cache
Photo shows ancient weapons found in a cave near the Dead Sea in Israel, undated. The ancient weapons were secreted behind a wall of stalactites deep inside the cave in the Judean Desert southeast of Jerusalem sometime in the 2nd or 3rd century A.D. (Israel Antiquities Authority/Newsflash)

Rare Roman Gladiator Swords Unearthed In Ancient Arms Cache

A cache of astonishingly perfectly preserved Roman swords has been unearthed from what scientists believe was once a two-thousand-year-old rebel arms dump. The four swords are said to be in…

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Read more about the article Ancients Were Cremated With Animals And Favourite Jewellery, Scans Show
Image shows the Late Bronze Age urn, undated photo. It contained human remains when it was found at the city of St. Poelten, Lower Austria State, Austria. (Waltenberger, OeAW, OeAI/Newsflash)

Ancients Were Cremated With Animals And Favourite Jewellery, Scans Show

Astonished scientists investigating Bronze Age burial urns have discovered that ancients were cremated with animals and their jewellery. CT scans carried out by Austrian experts have revealed that ashes found…

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Read more about the article Scientists Unearth Ancient New Frog Fossil
Picture shows the reconstruction of a new species of prehistoric amphibian, undated. It lived 100,000 years ago, the species inhabited the region during the Pleistocene in San Pedro, Argentina. (Museo Paleontologico Fray Manuel de Torres/Newsflash)

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A new species of ancient wide-mouthed frog once prey to caveman hunters 100,000 years ago has been unearthed by scientists in Argentina. Fossil hunters discovered the remains of the amphibian's…

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Read more about the article Scientists Stumble Across Bronze Age Treasures
Image shows the bronze artifacts, undated photo. They were discovered in the prehistoric settlement of Motta Vallac, near the village of Salouf, in the canton of Graubuenden, Switzerland, last autumn. (Canton Graubuenden Office for Culture, Archaeological Service/Newsflash)

Scientists Stumble Across Bronze Age Treasures

A massive haul of Bronze Age treasures has been unearthed by astonished experts who had been looking for remains at a Roman battle site. Archaeologists had been scouring the site…

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Read more about the article Experts Use Fibre Optic Cable Network To Detect Landslides, Quakes and Fires
Image shows (from left to right) Vlad Dumitru, Werner Lienhart and Lisa Strasser from the Institute of Engineering Geodesy and Measurement Systems at TU Graz, Austria, undated photo. They developed a measurement method that uses exciting fibre optic lines to detect landslides earlier. (Lunghammer - TU Graz/Newsflash)

Experts Use Fibre Optic Cable Network To Detect Landslides, Quakes and Fires

Scientists in Austria have developed a way of detecting fires, rockslides and earthquakes by measuring minute changes in the light pulses in fibre optic cable networks caused by shifts in…

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