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Were The Mysterious “Sea Peoples” Lurking Throughout Nolan's The Odyssey Real? We Asked The Experts

Etching taken from part of the wall relief at Medinet Habu, Egypt depicting the Sea Peoples (thought to be the Peleset) being defeated by the army of Ramses III in c.1173 BCE.

Were The Mysterious “Sea Peoples” Lurking Throughout Nolan's The Odyssey Real? We Asked The Experts

Etching taken from part of the wall relief at Medinet Habu, Egypt depicting the Sea Peoples (thought to be the Peleset) being defeated by the army of Ramses III in c.1173 BCE.

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Were The Mysterious “Sea Peoples” Lurking Throughout Nolan's The Odyssey Real? We Asked The Experts

Historians and archaeologists have mixed feelings about the spectre haunting Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster.

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Asteroid (44) Nysa Is A World Like No Other – It’s The First Known 3-Lobed Space Object And Even Has Its Own Moon

the asteroid looks like a bulbous arch from this vantage point

Asteroid (44) Nysa Is A World Like No Other – It’s The First Known 3-Lobed Space Object And Even Has Its Own Moon

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Meet Simon And Garfunkel: Rare Two-Headed Gecko Doing Well At 1 Month Old, Even If "The Left Head Is A Bit More Grumpy"

A two headed gecko in two photos showing off the heads.

Meet Simon And Garfunkel: Rare Two-Headed Gecko Doing Well At 1 Month Old, Even If "The Left Head Is A Bit More Grumpy"

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Footprints On A 1.43-Million-Year-Old Shoreline Have Anthropologists Questioning If We’ve Underestimated Early Hominin’s Size

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Do Animals Have Pets? Monkey Friendships With Squirrels, Pigs, And Dogs Could Explain Why We Love Our Animal Pals So Much

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Two Tiny Ivory Figurines Dating Back 40,000 Years Add To Enduring Mystery Of Why There Are So Few Birds Depicted In Ice Age Art

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Falcon 9 Rocket Stage "Abandoned" In High-Earth Orbit Is About To Slam Into The Moon, With The Energy Of 11.8 Gigajoules

A topographical map of the Einstein crater on the Moon. Circles around a central impact crater.

Falcon 9 Rocket Stage "Abandoned" In High-Earth Orbit Is About To Slam Into The Moon, With The Energy Of 11.8 Gigajoules

The Moon is about to get a new crater courtesy of Elon Musk, and astronomers are ready to watch it happen.

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Clues To Why Alzheimer's Risk Is Lower In People Who Have Received The Tuberculosis Vaccine

A microscope image of a mouse brain model of alzheimers, showing amyloid plaques in red

Clues To Why Alzheimer's Risk Is Lower In People Who Have Received The Tuberculosis Vaccine

The BCG vaccine reshapes the immune environment around the brain, helping to explain its effect on Alzheimer’s and how to fight it.

July 7, 2026

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Orcas Ram Sunfish So Hard They Explode “Into Thousands Of Pieces” And No, We’re Not Joking

a tryptic shows the orca swimming towards a dead sunfish being held by another orca, that orca lets go and the other one swims into it releasing lots of tissue, and in the final image there are flecks of sunfish everywhere as the orcas swim around casually

Orcas Ram Sunfish So Hard They Explode “Into Thousands Of Pieces” And No, We’re Not Joking

"We think this may help younger orcas feed more easily or it could also just be for fun."

July 23, 2026

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Brain Training That Really Works? First-Ever Clinical Proof That Science-Backed Exercises Can Reduce Levels Of Key Alzheimer’s Marker

Neurons in Alzheimer's disease. 3D illustration showing amyloid plaques in brain tissue, neurofibrillary tangles and distruction of neuronal networks

Brain Training That Really Works? First-Ever Clinical Proof That Science-Backed Exercises Can Reduce Levels Of Key Alzheimer’s Marker

IFLScience spoke to two scientists who explained how BrainHQ works, what makes it different, and what results people have been seeing.

July 23, 2026