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A team of conservationists has discovered and restored the tombstone of Sebastian, a formerly enslaved man who died free in 1729.”That discovery is likely one of the oldest gravestones of…
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope has spotted 31 previously unknown quasars dating to the universe’s earliest chapter, including the two oldest ever found.The discoveries, described July 6…
The fragile and battered remains of an infant who lived about 6,000 years in Mesopotamia may be the oldest documented case of child abuse from the Middle East and one…
For the first time, a physicist has experimentally watched time emerge from within an isolated quantum system — by creating a “mini-universe.” This bizarre experiment raises an intriguing question: If…
Archaeologists in Italy have unearthed the royal tomb of a pre-Roman “warrior-prince” along with the remains of his chariot and weapons. The tomb was just one part of an extensive…
QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Great Bahama Bank, Bahamas [23.547188707, -76.46352937]What’s in the photo? Submerged sandbanks and seagrass beds in shallow waterWhich satellite took the photo? Landsat 8When was it taken?…
Deep in a limestone cave on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, archaeologists have uncovered evidence that Neanderthals and the modern humans who moved in later left behind surprisingly similar traces of their…
Scientists say they have built a “synthetic cell” that can eat, grow and divide in a way that’s remarkably similar to living cells.The research, released to the preprint database bioRxiv…
Scientists uncovered a link between mild heart trouble and microscopic signs of brain damage that may raise the risk of memory problems down the line.The new study, published Monday (July…
Scientists have found evidence that gravitational waves from a spectacular black hole collision carry signals from the very edge of the newly formed black hole. If confirmed by future observations,…