Archaeologists working at the Karahöyük site in Konya province, central Türkiye, have found a set of 3,500-year-old vessels consisting of a jar, a three-lobed spouted jug, and a plate. The find occurred during…
Imagine a child with eczema who scratches a patch of irritated skin. A tiny opening forms, invisible to the eye. Into that breach slips a common bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus. For many people, the…
Jennifer Chu | MIT News A new and powerful particle detector just passed a critical test in its goal to decipher the ingredients of the early universe. The sPHENIX detector is the newest experiment at…
An international team, led by scientists from the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences (MACN), unearthed near El Calafate the nearly complete skeleton of a giant relative of crocodiles, which they named Kostensuchus atrox….
The discovery, made in early July, is considered a milestone for local archaeology. “A mural with these characteristics has never been documented in the region before. The iconography, decorative techniques, and exceptional state…
A historic record has excited the team of the Onças do Iguaçu Project. For the first time, a crested eagle (Morphnus guianensis) was captured on video at Iguaçu National Park, in Paraná, Brazil….
A brain implant can decode a person’s internal thoughts, but it only works if the user thinks of a pre-defined password. The device, a brain–computer interface (BCI), was able to decipher up to…
In a 6,800 m² area of the Celtic oppidum of Manching in Bavaria, archaeologists recovered over 40,000 artifacts dating back to the Iron Age. The highlight is a bronze warrior statuette, just 7.5…
Australia’s First Nations history stretches back many tens of thousands of years, rich in depth and diversity. Archaeological research has revealed much about this deep past, but it has rarely captured the gestures…
Researchers from Tel Aviv University and Sheba Medical Center achieved an unprecedented feat: creating human mini kidneys — called organoids — in the laboratory from stem cells taken from kidney tissue. These mini…