anomalies

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As part of the ScanPyramids project, the research team closely examined the eastern facade and detected two anomalies behind the polished surface.

From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026

It dawns on him that he’s in a new, bizarre, just-for-him reality, and he won’t see daylight until he can spot the anomalies in each go-round.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

Alphabet spinoff SandboxAQ and Australia’s DeteQt are developing systems based on measurement of magnetic anomalies in the Earth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

The agency admitted that, for decades, the government had lied and said the sightings of the mysterious, high-altitude silver crafts were just weather anomalies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026

Impetus theory was used to handle some anomalies, not to bring about a revolution; indeed, medieval natural philosophers were incapable of imagining a revolution that would supplant Aristotle.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton