26 h. ago Scientists probing 'alien' mummies make shocking discovery inside womb of corpse

The mystery surrounding the bizarre alien mummies found in Peru has deepened after scientists made a shocking womb discovery.

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51 h. ago The One Show's Alex Jones issues message after Hollywood star replaced at last minute

Gerard Butler was scheduled to speak about his latest film

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59 h. ago A strange object is sending radio signals through space and experts don't know why

Astronomers, including one from Edinburgh, have been left perplexed over a new type of cosmic phenomenon

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9 d. ago Mystery alien object sending messages every two minutes leaves boffins baffled

A 'new cosmic phenomenon' is sending out radio waves and X-rays every 44 minutes for two minutes at a time - and boffins say it could be down to 'stellar evolution' or a magnetar

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1 week ago Rayo Vallecano celebrate banner night: ‘25 years later, Europe sees us again’

A Conference League place is a monumental achievement, made all the better by how out of place it all feelsRayo Vallecano’s fans rolled out the banner at 10.46pm on the last Saturday of the season and rolled it away again a minute later. There had been a sneak glimpse of the message they hoped to stretch across the one end of a ground that is actually an end and not just a wall at risk of falling down, but it wasn’t quite time for the big reveal. For now all they wanted was to pull 40 metres of fabric into place, huge white letters proudly painted on a red background, ready for when, if, it actually was. They certainly didn’t intend to tempt fate; it wasn’t done yet, history still not made and, God knows, if there is a place where anything can go wrong, where football and life isn’t always kind but is always lived, it is here.There was though a brief look before the banner was hidden again behind the back row – something about years, Europe and us – and they were close now. There we...

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last month Today’s AI can crack second world war Enigma code ‘in short order’, experts say

Crowning achievement of Alan Turing’s codebreakers is now ‘straightforward’, according to computer scientistsThe Enigma code was a fiendish cipher that took Alan Turing and his fellow codebreakers a herculean effort to crack. Yet experts say it would have crumbled in the face of modern computing.While Polish experts broke early versions of the Enigma code in the 1930s and built anti-Enigma machines, subsequent security upgrades by the Germans meant Turing had to develop new machines, or “Bombes”, to help his team of codebreakers decipher enemy messages. By 1943, the machines could decipher two messages every minute. Continue reading...

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