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Scientists find 1500-year-old Viking settlement beneath new airport site

A blue bead discovered in a 1500-year-old Viking garbage pile. (credit: Åge Hojem)

When Norway announced plans to expand its Ørland Airport this year, archaeologists got excited. They knew that pre-construction excavation was likely to reveal ancient Viking artifacts. But they got far more than they had hoped.

Ørland Airport is located in a region of Norway that changed dramatically after...

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Video: Jeff Bezos spotlights Blue Origin’s ‘very happy’ rocket scientists after touchdown
Blue Origin celebration
“Touchdown” means something different to rocket scientists and to football fans, but the cheering, hugs and high fives are the same – as revealed today in a Blue Origin video. The video shows how the Nov. 23 landing of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spacecraft played out, as seen from four perspectives. Two views showed how the autonomous...
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Alien megastructure? Nothing to see around formerly weird star, scientists say
Comet storm, not alien megastructures
Recent infrared observations of a star that once showed a pattern of weird dimming have turned up no anomalous readings, astronomers say – and that supports the view that a comet blitz rather than the construction of an alien megastructure was behind the earlier observations. The latest evidence, laid out in a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal...
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