As waters and ice recede under warming conditions, the traces of people and civilizations long gone from the mortal realm emerge. Recently, A team of German and Kurdish archaeologists have uncovered...
Throughout history, important cities around the world have flourished along river banks. But rivers can also be destructive forces. They routinely flood, and on rare occasions, they can abruptly...
There's a revolution underway in astronomy. In fact, you might say there are several. In the past ten years, exoplanet studies have advanced considerably, gravitational wave astronomy has emerged as...
Luka Modric and Real Madrid have reached a definitive agreement for the Croatian to continue at the club for another season. His standard of performances shown throughout the season has once again...
In the comics, Dr. Manhattan is one of the most powerful characters ever created but he is no hero as many might think. Elon Muskclearly sees himself as this all-powerful character due to his skills...
Sadio Mane has stressed that Liverpool's players will not be seeking revenge in this Saturday's Champions League final against Real Madrid in Paris. The Liverpool forward indicated that Real Madrid...
The Amazon is one of the planet’s last great wildernesses, but legends have circulated for centuries that lost cities existed deep within the forests. A newly discovered network of "lost" ancient...
Shanghai is slowly emerging from a gruelling COVID lockdown that has all but immobilised the city since March. Although Shanghai’s port, which handles one-fifth of China’s shipping volumes, has...
We humans like to think our mastery of language sets us apart from the communication abilities of other animals, but an eye-opening new analysis of chimpanzees might force a rethink on just how...
The CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique can be used to change genetic coding with great precision, and its uses include curing disease and fixing genetic faults. Now it's been used to change animal...
Humans behave in strange ways. We readily reveal our inner feelings during moments of weakness, which doesn’t seem like the smart thing to do. Just by observing someone’s behaviour, we can tell...
When you use the internet, you leave behind a trail of data, a set of digital footprints. These include your social media activities, web browsing behavior, health information, travel patterns,...
Researchers have linked spending more time playing video games with a boost in intelligence in children, which goes some way to contradicting the narrative that gaming is bad for young minds. While...
Let’s suppose you were an astronaut who just landed on the planet Mars. What would you need to survive? For starters, here’s a short list: Water, food, shelter – and oxygen. Oxygen is in the...
The water in Lake Powell, one of the nation’s largest reservoirs, has fallen so low amid the Western drought that federal officials are resorting to emergency measures to avoid shutting down...
There's a key aspect of quantum computing you may not have thought about before. Called 'quantum non-demolition measurements', they refer to observing certain quantum states without destroying...
Israeli police attacked mourners carrying the coffin of slain Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on May 13, 2022, beating pallbearers with batons and kicking them when they fell to...
Kylian Mbappe was very close to the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu at the time, but at the last minute, to Madrid's surprise, he preferred to try his luck at the Parc des Princes first. Throughout this...
On May 12, 2022, astronomers on the Event Horizon Telescope team released an image of a black hole called Sagittarius A* that lies at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Chris Impey, an astronomer...
Some cryptocurrencies have always been fairly volatile, with values soaring or plunging within a short space of time. So for the more cautious investor, “stablecoins” were considered the...
