Scientists Are Racing to Unearth the Secrets of an Ancient Underwater World
Historians and divers are trying to retrieve prehistoric clues from beneath the waves—but they have to act fast.
This ‘Artificial Sun’ Just Smashed Its Own Nuclear Fusion Record.
The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak in Heifei, China, a testbed for the long-awaited (and now delayed) ...
Scientists Used a ‘Forbidden Fried Egg’ to Measure Quantum Geometry
In the forbidden fried egg image, the yolk is whats known as a Bloch sphere, and represents the classical geometry version of ...
Scientists Invented Molecular ‘Chainmail’ That’s Way Stronger Than Kevlar
Researchers at Duke University then added the ‘chainmail’ to a material known as Ultem, which is in the same family as Kevlar ...
Archaeologists Uncovered An Ancient ‘Boundary Stone.’ Its Inscription Could Alter Roman History.
Archaeologists uncovered a boundary stone, used to mark land borders during the Roman Empire, dated to a period during which ...
Scientists Just Solved the Mystery Behind This Strange Celestial Object
An extremely slow pulsar has made scientists “slow down” their assumptions about other pulsars. The pace could be caused by a ...
Scientists Found Miraculously-Preserved Tattoos on the Hands of 1,000-Year-Old Mummies
One of the first applications of laser-stimulated fluorescence in anthropology, the tattoos contain lines only 0.1 millimeter ...
Archaeologists Just Found a ‘Treasure Trove’ of Era-Spanning Artifacts
Archaeologists with the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) made a series of discoveries ...
After 15 Years, Scientists Finally Opened This Mysterious Ancient Vessel
The vessel, which dates back to the Shang dynasty, contained a liquid that (upon analysis) was revealed to be distilled ...
Scientists Found a Strange Life Form Caught in an Evolutionary Time Loop
“Imagine each species’ genome is a book, and each little DNA fragment is a sentence,” Rohwer said in a press statement. “Each sample has hundreds of books, all cut up into these sentences. To ...
Scientists Think Ancient ‘Sun Stones’ May Have Been Volcanic Sacrifices
Located on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm, these stones are flat pieces of shale featuring intricately ...
This is the best museum in Colorado, according to Conde Nast Traveler
DENVER ( KDVR) — The best museum in Colorado is right in the heart of Denver, according to a popular travel magazine. Denver’s many museums and attractions have helped the Mile High City earn ...