Science

Ram-shaped teapot from ancient Canaanite cult discovered near ancient city of Armageddon

While excavating near the ancient city of Armageddon in Israel, archaeologists unearthed a 3,300-year-old Canaanite "tea set," a dollhouse-sized temple, and one of the oldest known winepresses in the...

Roman road network was twice as large as previously thought, new mapping project finds

An international research team has created a new map of the Roman Empire — and it expands the...

What are the signs that nature is telling us?’ Scientists are triggering earthquakes in the Alps to find out what happens before one hits

Scientists are deliberately triggering earthquakes from a tunnel deep beneath the Alps. Although it may sound like something...

Data Centers: The Past, Present and Future of Digital Infrastructure

In today’s digital-first world, data centers are the invisible engines that power almost everything we do from streaming...

Six Months with R2-D2: Inside the Life of a Certified Automation Technician Aboard Galactic Starship

The Galactic Assignment of a Lifetime For most automation technicians, the job involves factory floors, assembly lines, and robotic...

Rare wampum beads discovered at 17th-century colony in Newfoundland

Seven tiny beads unearthed in Newfoundland, Canada, are a rare discovery — they may be the only wampum ever found in the province, and...

Physicists find a loophole in Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle without breaking it

Physicists have measured both the momentum and position of a particle without breaking Heisenberg’s iconic uncertainty principle.In quantum mechanics, particles don’t have fixed properties...

Jane Goodall, famed primatologist who discovered chimpanzee tool use, dies at 91

Jane Goodall, the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, has died at the age of 91, the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) confirmed in a statement...

'Health impacts are being felt in real time': How the CDC is being decimated by the Trump administration

The CDC's current crisis has been building since Trump's first week in office and boiled over after Kennedy fired the agency's newly appointed director. Published...

‘Closest view’ yet of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS captured by ESA Mars orbiter

Two spacecraft on Mars have captured new images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in the closest view that the European Space Agency (ESA) will...

China issues new pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions — is it now a global leader in climate action?

In a video statement to the United Nations (UN) in September, China's President Xi Jinping announced the country's first-ever plan defining set targets to...