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In England and Wales, anyone who finds an object that legally counts as treasure has to report it, and if it is acquired the reward is normally split down the middle between the finder and the landowner. Seven detectorists shared half of £4.3 million for 2,584 coins. - ScienceBlog.com

A chance discovery of Norman coins in a Somerset field has made seven metal detectorists millionaires—and exposed how Britain's centuries-old treasure laws actually work in practice.

Captured 13 Sept 2026, 10:38Source published 11 Sept 2026, 01:30

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No sample deliberately collected on Mars has ever been examined in a laboratory on Earth, because bringing one home requires launching a sealed container from the Martian surface, autonomously rendezvousing with another spacecraft in orbit, and carrying it across interplanetary space; China plans to accomplish all three with Tianwen-3 and return at least 500 grams of Martian material around 2031. - ScienceBlog.com

Tianwen-3’s two-launch plan must link a Mars ascent, autonomous orbital capture and sealed interplanetary return before any sample can reach an Earth laboratory.

Captured 11 Sept 2026, 09:47Source published 9 Sept 2026, 22:30

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Aquarium releases probably seeded the Atlantic lionfish invasion; with females producing about two million eggs a year and almost no predators capable of controlling them, the fish colonised 7.3 million square kilometres of the western Atlantic and Caribbean in less than three decades. - ScienceBlog.com

Lionfish probably entered the Atlantic through several aquarium releases, then spread through drifting larvae, repeated spawning and weak population-level control.

Updated 31 Aug 2026, 12:05Source published 30 Aug 2026, 11:31

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