2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (751+ words) Mercury formed about 4.5 billion years ago from clouds of gas and dust. The early history of the Solar System was marked by numerous collisions between celestial bodies. The planets were already hot when they formed, while these impacts generated additional…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (895+ words) The first glimpse inside a newly discovered ancient tomb is both exciting and daunting. An international research team recently experienced this moment during fieldwork in the Theban Necropolis, a UNESCO World Heritage Site near the modern Egyptian city of Luxor,…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (973+ words) The study was led by Professor Adam Brumm of the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution (ARCHE) at Griffith University, with the participation of Associate Professors Karrie Matheson and Michelle Langley. By combining archaeological data with biochemical research, the team…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (641+ words) Archaeologists have uncovered a 2,000-year-old ring bearing the name of Pontius Pilate, potentially solving a long-standing mystery, the website Popular Mechanics reports. Among the ruins of the abandoned palace and fortress of Herodium, in the remains of a former courtyard,…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (580+ words) At first, the ring appeared to be just one of the hundreds of unremarkable artifacts from the site. It dates to the 1st century BCE and depicts a calyx krater—a vessel used in antiquity for mixing wine and water. Surrounding…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (310+ words) OpenAI says an unreleased artificial intelligence system has solved the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems. According to the company, the model produced a proof in 88 hours. OpenAI has published both a research…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (943+ words) Earth’s surface water puts the planet in its own privileged category among the bodies of the Solar System. Nowhere else is water found in such abundance, and it is water that made the emergence and development of life possible. There…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (535+ words) Contact with soil, grass, trees and moss may offer a range of health benefits, both for the skin and the immune system. Finnish ecologist and researcher of the links between nature and health Mira Grönroos, from the Finnish Environment Institute,…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (195+ words) Under certain conditions, the human brain can resist decay for millennia. New research reveals the chemistry that allows this normally fragile organ to survive. More than 4,400 preserved human brains have been documented worldwide, some dating back nearly 12,000 years. In over…...