An international team of astronomers has published a detailed study of VT J1906+0849, a radio source discovered in the VLASS ...
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) filled his notebooks with insects: dragonflies, bees, wasps, butterflies — almost all of them winged. That focus lines up with what historians already knew about him.
Archaeologists analyzing wall fragments from a Roman villa in northern Italy have found something that shouldn't be there: grains of Egyptian blue, the oldest synthetic pigment ever made, mixed ...
Forty years ago, archaeologist Lucien Basch and researcher Michal Artzy published a set of 19 ship graffiti carved into the walls of Kition Kathari, an archaeological site beneath the modern city of ...
In the German state of Brandenburg, barely a hundred meters (about 330 feet) from the border with Saxony-Anhalt, the Havel River curls around a low rise of land that locals call the Pilatsch. For ...
On the slope below the cemetery of Sant’Elpidio a Mare, in Italy’s Le Marche region, recent heavy rains loosened the hillside enough to expose something no one was looking for: a rounded ceramic ...
A copper ingot cast somewhere in inland Sardinia during the Bronze Age might, centuries later, turn up in a Scottish tomb or ...
Somewhere between an electron and a human being, the rules of physics change. Quantum mechanics allows an atom to exist in ...
Forty years ago, archaeologist Lucien Basch and researcher Michal Artzy published a set of 19 ship graffiti carved into the ...
While Brutus and his allies were stabbing Julius Caesar to death, a good chunk of the Roman working class was having a picnic ...
There's a temperature nothing in the universe has ever touched. It's called absolute zero, equal to -273.15°C (-459.67°F), ...
Some 40 miles (65 km) from Thessaloniki, a teenager who would go on to reshape the ancient world once sat listening to ...