NASA’s Roman Telescope Unlocks New Chapter in the Search for Alien Worlds
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope team has integrated the innovative Roman Coronagraph Instrument, marking a major milestone in ...
Did China's Rover Zhurong Find Evidence of Water on Mars? Here's What We Know
A Chinese Mars rover may have found evidence of an ancient ocean on the arid Red Planet. According to a new paper in the ...
Researchers are learning more about ‘Zosia,’ the 17th century ‘vampire’ buried with a blade over her neck
Researchers recreated the face of a 17th century woman buried with a sickle across her neck and a padlock on her toe, ...
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The egg or the chicken? An ancient unicellular says egg
Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at over a billion years, well before ...
Ancient unicellular organism indicates embryonic development might have existed prior to animals' evolution
Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at over a billion years, well before ...
Part science, part magic: an illuminating history of healing with light
Many peoples throughout history used the warmth of the Sun to heal. Others used lamps or light split into different colours, ...
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The World’s Earliest Writing System May Have Been Influenced by Older Symbols Found on Stone ‘Cylinder Seals’
Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research ...
6,000-year-old Mesopotamian artifacts linked to the dawn of writing
Making the jump from using symbols to writing is considered a major development in human cognitive abilities. Tracing how and ...
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Astronomers Find Signs Of Distant Objects At The Edge Of Our Solar System Suggesting, Which Suggests The Kuiper Belt Is Larger Than Previously Believed
When you get out past the planets of our solar system and keep going, you will eventually enter the Kuiper belt, which has ...
World’s oldest writing system may have its origins in mysterious, undeciphered symbols
A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...
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These 5,000-year-old seals might have paved the way for the invention of writing (and the birth of history)
Today, these imprints, pressed into clay tablets over 5,000 years ago, may reveal the secrets behind the birth of writing ...