During an excavation in the Molkenmarkt area, Berlin’s oldest square, archaeologists from the city’s State Monuments Office made a surprising discovery: a Japanese short sword, known as a wakizashi, dating back to the…
Adam Zewe | MIT News The most recent email you sent was likely encrypted using a tried-and-true method that relies on the idea that even the fastest computer would be unable to efficiently break a…
Joshua Snape, University of Manchester Data from India’s recent Chandrayaan-3 mission supports the idea that an ocean of molten rock once covered the Moon. Scientists from the mission have published their new findings…
Archaeologists made a significant discovery in Iowa by excavating the first well-preserved mastodon bones ever found in the state, including the skull of this prehistoric animal. The team unearthed the skull, which is…
The Dodo, a bird that has been extinct for centuries, continues to be the object of fascination and scientific study. A new article entitled “The systematics and nomenclature of the Dodo and the…
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan University The past decade has seen a rapid expansion of the commercial space industry. Rival nations are competing for prime military and economic positions beyond the Earth. Public and private…
Ruth Ogden, Liverpool John Moores University and Daniel Eduardo Vigo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Argentina Two astronauts marooned in space may sound like the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster, but for two Nasa…
Hans Sues, Smithsonian Institution Did all dinosaurs become extinct, killed when an asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago? Or could a few of them, somehow, have survived that mass extinction event…
Around 66 million years ago, a catastrophic event changed the course of life on Earth forever. This event, known as the Chicxulub asteroid impact, not only caused the extinction of around 70% of…
C Raina MacIntyre, UNSW Sydney The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern, after rising cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the potential…