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Only Two Full Viking Age Helmets Have Ever Been Discovered, So Where Are The Rest? And Where Are Their Horns?The Gjermundbu helmet was found in Norway and dates to the peak of the Viking Age.Only Two Full Viking Age Helmets Have Ever Been Discovered, So Where Are The Rest? And Where Are Their Horns?The Gjermundbu helmet was found in Norway and dates to the peak of the Viking Age.
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Only Two Full Viking Age Helmets Have Ever Been Discovered, So Where Are The Rest? And Where Are Their Horns?

To find out, IFLScience asked an archaeological expert from the Museum of the Viking Age.

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Why Are Republicans And The Right So Obsessed With Psychedelics Right Now?Donald Trump dancing
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Why Are Republicans And The Right So Obsessed With Psychedelics Right Now?

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Turning A Fireball Into A Meteorite Takes 7 Steps – Definitely More Than We Thoughta fireball in the evening sky, appearing among some clouds
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Turning A Fireball Into A Meteorite Takes 7 Steps – Definitely More Than We Thought

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Stunning "Golden Trees" Of Coral Found Growing From Carpet Of Brittle Stars Get "Lord Of The Rings"-Inspired Name

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Record-Breaking Human Mini Brains Kept Alive For 5 Years And Appear To Age Like The Real Thing

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Whale Song Appears To Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Sound Without Breaking Einstein's Theory Of Special Relativity

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For The First Time Ever, A Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccine Has Cleared Phase 3 Trials – And With Flying Colors3D colorful illustration of mRNA encased in lipid nanoparticles
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For The First Time Ever, A Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccine Has Cleared Phase 3 Trials – And With Flying Colors

Just a year after RFK Jr. cut half a billion of funding for the technology, mRNA vaccines are promising individualized cancer vaccines that cut the chances of recurrence in half.

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A New Longest-Living Fish? Sturgeon Could Top 400 Years – Far Longer Than Scientists Believed, But Something Indigenous Communities Had Long Understoodtwo adults hold a sturgeon, it's very long and heavy
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A New Longest-Living Fish? Sturgeon Could Top 400 Years – Far Longer Than Scientists Believed, But Something Indigenous Communities Had Long Understood

Some sturgeon alive today were swimming around when the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776.

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New Excavations At Göbekli Tepe Are Challenging Old Theories About The 11,600-Year-Old SiteGobeklitepe in Sanliurfa, Turkey. The Ancient Site of Gobekli Tepe is The Oldest Temple of the World. UNESCO World Heritage site.
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New Excavations At Göbekli Tepe Are Challenging Old Theories About The 11,600-Year-Old Site

This may change what we know about the purpose of humanity's first known monumental structure.

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For The First Time Ever, A Nurse Shark Has Filmed A Great White Shark Swimming Around A ReefGreat white shark
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For The First Time Ever, A Nurse Shark Has Filmed A Great White Shark Swimming Around A Reef

We hear they're screening the film in the sea-nema.

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Complex System Of Four Orbiting Stars Creates A Series Of Eclipses We've Never Seen Beforetwo pairs of stars orbit each other shown here with twisty orbital paths
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Complex System Of Four Orbiting Stars Creates A Series Of Eclipses We've Never Seen Before

One of the most compact double-binary systems we've ever seen has something truly special going on.

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Iceland's Struggling Whaling Industry Sees Fresh Opportunity In Whale-Based Iron SupplementsA fin whale surfacing in waters around Greenland
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Iceland's Struggling Whaling Industry Sees Fresh Opportunity In Whale-Based Iron Supplements

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The Ancient Civilizations From Greek Mythology Made Bling From MeteoritesMycenaean ring made of meteoritic iron
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The Ancient Civilizations From Greek Mythology Made Bling From Meteorites

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Earth’s Shadow Will Almost Entirely Cover The Moon This Friday – With North And South America Getting Front Row Seats To This Exciting Partial Eclipsethe moon almost completely red during an eclipse
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Earth’s Shadow Will Almost Entirely Cover The Moon This Friday – With North And South America Getting Front Row Seats To This Exciting Partial Eclipse

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Cryptic Engravings On 9,000-Year-Old Arrowheads Hint At Unique Neolithic Traditions, But Archaeologists Can’t Figure Out What They MeanPrehistoric obsidian arrowhead
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Cryptic Engravings On 9,000-Year-Old Arrowheads Hint At Unique Neolithic Traditions, But Archaeologists Can’t Figure Out What They Mean

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Desert-Dwelling Neanderthals? Extinct Human Relatives May Have Ventured Into Arabia 55,000 Years Ago, Way Further South Than ThoughtA family of camels in the Nafud desert in Arabia
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Desert-Dwelling Neanderthals? Extinct Human Relatives May Have Ventured Into Arabia 55,000 Years Ago, Way Further South Than Thought

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Fire May Have Transformed Humans From Daytime Creatures Into 24-Hour Animals… Kind Of Like Lemurs2477 activity pattern
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Fire May Have Transformed Humans From Daytime Creatures Into 24-Hour Animals… Kind Of Like Lemurs

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At 3,200 Years Old, These Painted Ceramics May Be The World’s First Sought After “Brand”Pottery belonging to the Qurayyah Painted Ware brand
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At 3,200 Years Old, These Painted Ceramics May Be The World’s First Sought After “Brand”

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Flu Vaccines Reimagined: Scientists Unveil World-First Process To Make Universal Flu Shots In Less Than Half The Timeyeast cells under a microscope
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Flu Vaccines Reimagined: Scientists Unveil World-First Process To Make Universal Flu Shots In Less Than Half The Time

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Man's Testosterone Regimen Sends Him Into Psychosis, Hearing The Voice Of God Inside His BodyA molecular model of testosterone.
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Man's Testosterone Regimen Sends Him Into Psychosis, Hearing The Voice Of God Inside His Body

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Scientists Create Female Clones From Male Mice In "Strange And Fascinating" Experiment That Could Help Endangered SpeciesThe original male donor mouse with male clones (left) and female clones (right).
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Scientists Create Female Clones From Male Mice In "Strange And Fascinating" Experiment That Could Help Endangered Species

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Man's Heart Surgery Cures His Skin Cancer – And Leaves Him With A Brand New Bee AllergyA honey bee flying directly at the camera head on.
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Man's Heart Surgery Cures His Skin Cancer – And Leaves Him With A Brand New Bee Allergy

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It's Time For The Annual Waterlily Weigh Off! These Plants Can Hold An Adult Human – And We Just Proved ItA man in waders stands on top of a large lily pad with another man next to it both celebrating inside Kew Gardens.
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It's Time For The Annual Waterlily Weigh Off! These Plants Can Hold An Adult Human – And We Just Proved It

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OnlyFans And Crypto Meme Coin Raise Over $120,000 For Marmot Research Faced With Funding-Cut OblivionYellow-bellied marmot on a rock
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OnlyFans And Crypto Meme Coin Raise Over $120,000 For Marmot Research Faced With Funding-Cut Oblivion

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Watch Live As Millions Of Wildebeest And Zebras Attempt To Cross The Mara River While Avoiding Hungry CrocodilesA herd of wildebeest scramble down a river bank and into muddy water to cross the river.
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Watch Live As Millions Of Wildebeest And Zebras Attempt To Cross The Mara River While Avoiding Hungry Crocodiles

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Jodie Foster The 4.5-Meter-Long Reticulated Python Receives Pioneering Electrochemotherapy For Mouth Tumor In World FirstAs snakes mouth is propped open as gloved hands work on her tumor.
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Jodie Foster The 4.5-Meter-Long Reticulated Python Receives Pioneering Electrochemotherapy For Mouth Tumor In World First

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If Humans Visit The Lunar South Pole, Microbes We Leave Behind May Survive There Surprisingly WellThe next time we land on the Moon it could be at a location much more suited to the survival of the microbes we bring with us than previous missions
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If Humans Visit The Lunar South Pole, Microbes We Leave Behind May Survive There Surprisingly Well

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JWST Image Trick Finally Reveals Compact Galaxies Around Mysterious Little Red Dotsa red dot is seen brightly at the center and faint disks over lap around it creating the impression of the structure
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JWST Image Trick Finally Reveals Compact Galaxies Around Mysterious Little Red Dots

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Astronauts And Cosmonauts Have A Pooping Problem In Microgravity, And New Research May Have Figured Out WhyAstronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor demonstrates the ISS toilet, holding up a tube.
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Astronauts And Cosmonauts Have A Pooping Problem In Microgravity, And New Research May Have Figured Out Why

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One Of Our Most Detailed Views Yet Of Betelgeuse Reveals Unexpected Long-Lasting Structures In Its Inner Atmospherethe star is roughly circular but lumpy. two bright region are visible compared to the rest
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One Of Our Most Detailed Views Yet Of Betelgeuse Reveals Unexpected Long-Lasting Structures In Its Inner Atmosphere

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Flaw In NASA System Found By AI Could Have Been Used To Issue Commands To Active SpacecraftArtist depiction of Voyager looking back at the Solar System.
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Flaw In NASA System Found By AI Could Have Been Used To Issue Commands To Active Spacecraft

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One Of The Coldest Places In The Universe Is Now A Fridge In New YorkThe first two modules of the IBM’s scalable and modular cryogenic system are two metal boxes with copper structures inside
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One Of The Coldest Places In The Universe Is Now A Fridge In New York

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Can AI Be Conscious? Some Claim It Already Is. An AI Sociologist Cuts Through The HypeA drawing of circuit that become a human face
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Can AI Be Conscious? Some Claim It Already Is. An AI Sociologist Cuts Through The Hype

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Jazz Musicians Leave Hidden “Fingerprints” In Their Work – Newly Trained Computer Models Can Identify Them With Over 90 Percent Accuracyvintage-looking upright piano against a brick wall
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Jazz Musicians Leave Hidden “Fingerprints” In Their Work – Newly Trained Computer Models Can Identify Them With Over 90 Percent Accuracy

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X-Files Creator Chris Carter On How Real-Life Head Transplants Inspired The Show’s Scariest MovieA still from the movie showing Mulder and Scully looking at a computer monitor
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X-Files Creator Chris Carter On How Real-Life Head Transplants Inspired The Show’s Scariest Movie

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Ever Struggle To Sleep On Your First Night Somewhere New? Be Grateful – Your Brain Is Just Looking Out For Youwoman sitting up in bed in a dark room with some yellow fairy lights in the window
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Ever Struggle To Sleep On Your First Night Somewhere New? Be Grateful – Your Brain Is Just Looking Out For You

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The Mathematical Reason Why No Voting System Can Ever Be Totally Fairan illustration of hands holding voting slips
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The Mathematical Reason Why No Voting System Can Ever Be Totally Fair

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When A Disease Scare Fizzles Out, Did Scientists Just Get It Wrong? What We Can Learn From The Pandemics That Weren'ttwo posters that are ripped at the edges, the one on the left shows an illustration of a pig sneezing with viruses nearby, the other is a biohazard warning poster. A logo in the top right hand corner reads IFLScience Viral Summer.
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When A Disease Scare Fizzles Out, Did Scientists Just Get It Wrong? What We Can Learn From The Pandemics That Weren't

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How To Get More IFLScience: Add Us As A “Preferred Source" On GoogleA logo of IFLScience with a hand pointing towards it
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How To Get More IFLScience: Add Us As A “Preferred Source" On Google

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Unlocking The Future Together: Why IFLScience Is Launching A Membership Modelcollage of images related to science with "iflscience is evolving" written in the centre
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Unlocking The Future Together: Why IFLScience Is Launching A Membership Model

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Opening The Vault: Uncovering A World Of Strange And Intriguing ScienceAn image of the vault doors opening with a screenshot of the IFLScience Vault article.
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Opening The Vault: Uncovering A World Of Strange And Intriguing Science

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If You Think Not Owning Your Media Is Bad, Thank The Lord That "Flexplay" Did Not Catch OnA Flexplay DVD: A dark red DVD disk inside a plastic bag.
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If You Think Not Owning Your Media Is Bad, Thank The Lord That "Flexplay" Did Not Catch On

While chemically interesting, the idea of self-destructing DVDs is not popular with movie-watchers.

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A Bronze Age Oak Coffin Containing Hair, Teeth, Nails, And Brain Matter: The Extraordinary Story Of The Egtved GirlA picture of the Egtved Girl burial as it now is, showing the furs and clothing within a log coffin.
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A Bronze Age Oak Coffin Containing Hair, Teeth, Nails, And Brain Matter: The Extraordinary Story Of The Egtved Girl

An accidental discovery revealed one of the most incredible Bronze Age burials.

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How We Remember: The Neuroscience of Memory Explainedblue brain image on a black background to the right of yellow text that reads How Does Memory Work?
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How We Remember: The Neuroscience of Memory Explained

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AI Consciousness Explained: Science vs Philosophya robot
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AI Consciousness Explained: Science vs Philosophy

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Unethical Experiments That Shook The WorldThe Tuskegee syphilis study
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Unethical Experiments That Shook The World

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