Researchers reconstruct the face of a teenage mummy believed to have been sacrificed in an Inca ritual more than 500 years ago

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A close-up of Juanita's reconstructed face.
The reconstruction of the face of a young woman who was found frozen and mummified near the summit of Mount Ampato in the Peruvian Andes after being sacrificed in a ritual more than 500 years ago, in Arequipa, Peru.

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13 mummified mice in Mars-like environments atop 20,000-foot volcanoes have stumped scientists, who don't know why mice would climb to such harsh heights

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One of the 13 mangled, mummified mice that researchers found on top of Andean volcanoes.

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Researchers discovered a hidden Antarctic landscape under a layer of ice over a mile thick that shows how different the continent looked millions of years ago

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A small boat in the water near the Admiralty Mountains in the east of Antarctica
The Admiralty Mountains loom in eastern Antarctica.

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The US went from having 356 to 10,000 roundabouts in 2 decades, and a transportation engineer explains why they're so much better than traffic lights

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A roundabout has less potential conflict points than an intersection.

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Space Perspective's balloon-like spacecraft is floating toward a 2024 commercial launch. See new photos of the high-altitude luxury vehicle — including its fancy space toilet.

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James Webb Space Telescope discovers Jupiter has a jet stream whipping around the planet at 320 mph, twice as fast as Earth's fiercest hurricanes

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The high-speed jetstream can be seen around Jupiter's equator.

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Ricardo Hueso (UPV), Imke de Pater (UC Berkeley), Thierry Fouchet (Observatory of Paris), Leigh Fletcher (University of Leicester), Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley), Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

A drought in the Amazon uncovered ancient, eerie face carvings that look like emojis

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A picture shows three engravings in dark rock. These seem to depict faces with the following expressions left to right: confounded, smiling, screaming.
Three pictures side-by-side show ancient engravings found under the Negro river in Manaus, Brazil.

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The sad, lonely secret behind America's never-ending wave of Marvel movies and Disney reboots

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A conga line of franchise characters.
Media companies are in the business of selling nostalgia — and it's because Americans are lonely.

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An astrophysicist explains why even if you were right next to the Voyager probes 15 billion miles from the sun you could still see them

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The Voyager probes are floating indefinitely through space, reaching further than any other space mission.

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Researchers investigating a medieval burial site found Christian symbols tattooed on one of the bodies' feet

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Images of the tattoo on the top side of the right foot. These pictures were taken with a full spectrum camera and digitally enhanced.
Images of the tattoo on the top side of the right foot. These pictures were taken with a full-spectrum camera and digitally enhanced.

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