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In January, local authorities arrested a 36-year-old man named Aditya Singh after he had spent three months living at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Since October,…
The illustration above shows the core features of the Poverty Point site in northern Louisiana. The green to the right is the Mississippi River flood…
Ahead of Columbus Day, findings pose further questions of what the explorer really expected to find on his voyage. New analysis of ancient writings suggests…
This year is the 20th anniversary of sequencing the human genome. In honor of this event, a research team led by Prof. FU Qiaomei from…
Multi-spectrally imaging the fragments at Bristol Central Library with Team Pigment. Credit: Professor Leah Tether Bristol manuscript fragments of the famous Merlin legend among the…
Tribute in Light, an annual display near the site of Ground Zero, commemorates the September 11 attacks. Credit: Scott Spitzer Experts across the University of…
NASA astronaut Walter Cunningham writes with a Fisher Space Pen during the flight of Apollo 7, the first crewed Apollo flight and the Space Pen’s…
Northwestern experts weigh in on the crisis in Afghanistan as events continue to unfold. Northwestern faculty in history, political science, international relations and journalism are…
Si.427 is a hand tablet from 1900-1600 BC, created by an Old Babylonian surveyor. It’s made out of clay and the surveyor wrote on it…
Apollo 15 lunar module pilot Jim Irwin loaded the lunar rover with tools and equipment in preparation for the first lunar spacewalk at the Hadley-Apennine…
Moai statuary on Easter Island (Rapa Nui). New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York suggests that the demographic collapse at the core…
Document analyzed as part of the study. Credit: Dave Lee Sheepskin may have been the preferred parchment for use in legal documents in Britain between…
Landscape views of scatters of qubbas around the Jebel Maman. Credit: Stefano Costanzo (CC-BY 4.0) Statistical methods designed for cosmology reveal tomb distribution in Sudan…
Paper offers foundation to advance search for Leonardo’s DNA. Leonardo Da Vinci: New family tree spans 21 generations, 690 years, finds 14 living male descendants.…
A Hacksilber hoard dated to the middle of the eleventh century BCE found by the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon. Credit: We are grateful to…
Artist’s impression of a Squalicorax shark. Credit: Dimitri Bogdanov Scientists have found an unexplained cache of fossilized shark teeth in an area where there should…
New Fossil Discovery of a Distinct, Ancient Human Species Points to Complicated Evolutionary Process
Static skull, mandible, and parietal orthographic. Credit: Tel Aviv University Analysis of recently discovered fossils found in Israel suggests that interactions between different human species…
[embedded content] This may well be the most interesting story about pillows and bedding you will ever read. The burial field in Valsgärde outside Uppsala…