Few people will not have heard of Marco Polo, the Venetian traveler who, between the 13th and 14th centuries, traveled ...

A team of biologists from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has identified the first fossil of an ant of the ...

After nearly a decade of meticulous research, the archaeological team from the University of Alicante (UA) has completed the ...

In the summer of 2024, during rescue excavations linked to the installation of an electric cable in the municipality of Kapitan Petko Voyvoda, in southern Bulgaria and just a few kilometers from the ...

An international team of scientists has successfully identified for the first time, with direct genetic evidence, the microbes that contributed to the catastrophic death toll among Napoleon’s soldiers ...

An international team of researchers has identified what could be the first artificial memory systems created by humans, carved into bones tens of thousands of years ago. These findings, published in ...

A team of archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen has found that in Murayghat, Jordan, a fascinating Early Bronze Age site (approximately 5,000 years ago), human groups gathered to honor ...

The internet and the digital revolution have rendered the fax obsolete, a device introduced by Xerox Corporation in 1964 that enjoyed a brief moment of glory in the following decades of the 20th ...

At the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt, a team of researchers has achieved a feat that until now had remained beyond experimental reach: measuring the ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have identified a new state of matter within a material synthesized in their laboratories—an advance that could redefine the boundaries of ...

Beneath the grounds where a new school is set to be built in Bielefeld, Germany, a team of archaeologists has unearthed the foundations of a large settlement that flourished between the 2nd and 5th ...

Although the mechanism by which lightning strikes the ground has long been understood, the exact process that triggers its formation within storm clouds had remained one of the great mysteries of ...