The Egyptian archaeological mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, working in southern Sinai, has announced the discovery of one of the most important newly identified archaeological sites of exceptional historical and artistic…
Researchers at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna have reexamined a small copper-alloy object excavated about a century ago from a cemetery at Badari in Upper…
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, has unveiled an ambitious new direction for space-based artificial intelligence, with SpaceX acquiring xAI. This strategic merger aims to transform AI processing capacity by moving it to a…
A metal detectorist found a medieval seal described by experts as “truly special” because it contains at its center a Roman gemstone carved around two thousand years ago. The discovery was made in…
Archaeologists in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have discovered an eight-foot-long iron spear (about 2.4 meters), considered the largest Iron Age weapon ever found in the country. The artifact was excavated…
Zach Winn | MIT News More than 200 years ago, the steam boiler helped spark the Industrial Revolution. Since then, steam has been the lifeblood of industrial activity around the world. Today the production of…
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo announced on Friday (23) the most significant archaeological discovery in the country over the past ten years: a Zapotec tomb dating back to AD 600, uncovered by the…
Scientists have identified what may be the oldest rock art ever known in the world: a hand stencil at least 67,800 years old, found in a cave in the southeastern part of the…
Artificial intelligence is increasingly woven into everyday life, from chatbots that offer companionship to algorithms that shape what we see online. But as generative AI (genAI) becomes more conversational, immersive and emotionally responsive,…
Anne Trafton | MIT News Detecting cancer in the earliest stages could dramatically reduce cancer deaths because cancers are usually easier to treat when caught early. To help achieve that goal, MIT and Microsoft researchers…