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2,300-year-old Celtic helmet discovered in Poland | 1st tardigrade fossils ever discovered hint at how they survived Earth's biggest mass extinction | 4-foot snake vomits up 2 smaller snakes — and 1 was still alive

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'Potentially hazardous' asteroid the size of a skyscraper to skim past Earth on Tuesday

The gigantic asteroid 2024 ON, about the size of a skyscraper, will fly close to Earth next Tuesday, missing our planet by 2.6 times the distance between Earth and the moon.

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2,300-year-old Celtic helmet discovered in Poland

Archaeologists think the ancient helmet indicates that Celts settled in the region to protect their supplies of precious amber.

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Animals

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1st tardigrade fossils ever discovered hint at how they survived Earth's biggest mass extinction

Detailed 3D images of the first tardigrade fossils ever discovered help scientists predict when tardigrades evolved their near-indestructibility — a trait that might have helped them survive multiple mass extinctions.

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4-foot snake vomits up 2 smaller snakes — and 1 was still alive

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Wildlife officials in Georgia stumbled across a pair of snakes that had been "expelled" by a larger serpent, only to discover that one of the regurgitated victims was still alive.
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'Springy' solid-state battery is twice the width of a white blood cell and could drastically increase EV range

Scientists in the U.S. have created a battery for electric cars that could be safer and offer better performance than the ones we have now thanks to a unique design.

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