Science

James Webb telescope pinpoints the most distant ‘fast radio burst’ ever seen, more than 10 billion light-years away

Astronomers have detected the most distant burst of radio signals ever seen: an explosion that's emitting waves of energy from more than 10 billion light-years away.The event, named FRB...

THE GEARBOX: The Revolutionary Power Expander That Helped Move Mankind Forward

By Gracus Bloom | Industrial Technology News There is a wonderfully misleading phrase sometimes used to describe a gearbox:...

Animals may have evolved 200 million years earlier than previously thought, new study suggests

The first animals may have appeared on Earth hundreds of millions years earlier than their fossils suggest, a...

Star Metal: When Ancient People Worked Metal From the Stars

By Gracus Bloom | Historical Science & Archaeology Long before modern metallurgy gave humanity steel mills, electric furnaces and...

To Blend or Not to Blend? Four Vegetables Worth Eating Whole

Health News | Nutrition, food preparation and what really happens inside your blender The blender debate: Are we missing...

Archaeologists find 2,800-year-old burial of person clutching sea turtle vessel in El Salvador

Archaeologists in El Salvador have uncovered the unusual burial of a face-down human skeleton that was interred along with a ceramic vessel shaped like...

Warp Engines by 2030? Scientists Say the Math Is Improving, but the Engineering Is Still Light-Years Away

By Gracus Bloom | City-Paper.com For decades, warp drive technology has belonged almost exclusively to science fiction. From the engines of the USS Enterprise to...

‘Once we were like you’: Striking reconstructions reveal the faces of 16 people from Roman-era Hungary

The face of a young woman crowned with a laurel wreath, buried in elaborate clothing and unusual cork sandals, has appeared nearly 1,700 years...

1971 Cutlass Oldsmobile Dwell Point Tuning: Maxing Horsepower vs. Fuel Efficiency

The 1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass is a perfect blend of muscle car swagger and precise engineering. One of the simplest yet most impactful tweaks you...

Ancient chariot emerges among remains of mysterious society that burned down its own buildings and then disappeared

Archaeologists in Spain have discovered the remains of a 2,400-year-old bronze chariot that was used to honor the gods and may have had links...

‘Extremely rare’ iron shackles discovered at 2,300-year-old settlement in France may have been used on enslaved women or children

Archaeologists have found five pairs of iron shackles at a 2,300-year-old Celtic site in France ‪—‬ a discovery that suggests the small settlement was...