Towards the end of Philip Ball’s marvellous book on the history of alchemy he tells the story of pioneering nuclear physicist ...

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California’s ancient redwood forests once covered over two million acres. Logging driven by the Gold Rush, railroads, and urban growth erased nearly all of it. Technology accelerated destruction ...

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Experts have used cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover concealed linguistic patterns and pinpoint the ...

A research team led by scientists at Kumamoto University has discovered a new genus of microscopic crustaceans from northern ...

Two young restorers gather 3D data from a statue in the Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Shanxi province, on April 6, 2023.

The ship is named after the 1st-century Indian mariner, Kaundinya, who founded the Southeast Asian kingdom of Funan. His ...

For decades, research and understanding of the diverse bone raw material used by the Late Prehispanic Period (~1220 to 330 ...

The mysterious Lycurgus Cup is a convincing artifact indicating that, possibly unbeknownst to them, the ancient Romans used ...