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Archaeologists Thought They Found Wires Buried on a Farm. It Was Actually Viking Treasure.

Archaeologists Thought They Found Wires Buried on a Farm. It Was Actually Viking Treasure......»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekSep 18th, 2024

Scientists detect traces of an ancient Mayan city in southern Mexico using laser-sensor technology

Archaeologists using laser-sensing technology have detected what may be an ancient Mayan city cloaked by jungle in southern Mexico, authorities said Wednesday......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 3rd, 2024

Huge Study Shows Where Gout Comes From, And It"s Not What We Thought

Huge Study Shows Where Gout Comes From, And It"s Not What We Thought.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsNov 3rd, 2024

4,000-year-old town discovered hidden in Arabian oasis

The discovery of a 4,000-year-old fortified town hidden in an oasis in modern-day Saudi Arabia reveals how life at the time was slowly changing from a nomadic to an urban existence, archaeologists said on Wednesday......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 3rd, 2024

Arrest made in killing of a Montana camper, initially thought to be a bear attack

Arrest made in killing of a Montana camper, initially thought to be a bear attack.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsNov 1st, 2024

Apple is buying a treasure in Pixelmator, and we hope it won"t get destroyed

If Apple's surprise acquisition of Mac developer Pixelmator passes the regulators, the future of its beloved apps may be bright — or there could be dark skies ahead.Dark Sky (left) was shut down, Apple Music Classical (right) came from an acquisiti.....»»

Category: appleSource:  appleinsiderRelated NewsNov 1st, 2024

Fresno magician died on Halloween after being buried alive. What went wrong?

Fresno magician died on Halloween after being buried alive. What went wrong?.....»»

Category: gadgetSource:  yahooRelated NewsNov 1st, 2024

Machine-learning analysis tracks the evolution of 16th-century European astronomical thought

A team of computer scientists, astronomers and historians in Berlin has used machine-learning applications to learn more about the evolutionary history of European astronomical thought in the 15th and 16th centuries. In their study published in the j.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsOct 31st, 2024

Norman coin hoard becomes England"s most valuable treasure—it could have been worth a lot more

There is clearly giddy excitement in the shaky footage showing hands scrabbling in the soil in the Chew Valley in south-west England. A close-up shot captures someone pulling silver coin after silver coin from the churned earth as a woman laughs "the.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 30th, 2024

Tunic found in one of the Royal Tombs at Vergina identified as Alexander the Great"s

An international team of archaeologists, led by Antonis Bartsiokas with Democritus University of Thrace, in Greece, has uncovered evidence that a tunic found in one of the Royal Tombs at Vergina once belonged to Alexander the Great......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 30th, 2024

Archaeologists suggest the "urban revolution" was slow in Bronze Age Arabia

Settlements in northern Arabia were in a transitional stage of urbanization during the third to second millennium BCE, according to a study published October 30, 2024 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Guillaume Charloux of the French National Ce.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 30th, 2024

Solar-powered animal cells: Combining chloroplasts from algae with hamster cells

Energy-making chloroplasts from algae have been inserted into hamster cells, enabling the cells to photosynthesize light, according to new research in Japan. It was previously thought that combining chloroplasts (chlorophyll containing structures in.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 30th, 2024

A Lost Mayan City Has Been Found With Laser Mapping

Archaeologists have revealed an ancient lost Mayan city using advanced laser mapping technology, unearthing monumental structures such as pyramids and plazas. Named Valeriana, the city is believed to have been founded before 150 AD......»»

Category: gadgetSource:  wiredRelated NewsOct 30th, 2024

Ecologists suggest animal alcohol consumption more common than thought

Anecdotes abound of wildlife behaving "drunk" after eating fermented fruits, but despite this, nonhuman consumption of ethanol has been assumed to be rare and accidental. Ecologists challenge this assumption in a review published October 30 in Trends.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 30th, 2024

Britain"s brass bands older than thought: Study reveals they were invented by soldiers from the Napoleonic Wars

Military musicians returning from the Napoleonic wars established Britain's first brass bands earlier than previously thought, new research reveals. The study undermines the idea that brass bands were a civilian and exclusively northern creation......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 30th, 2024

Beehive fences prove effective against elephant raids in Kenya

A groundbreaking, nine-year study has revealed that elephants approaching small-scale farms in Kenya avoid beehive fences housing live honey bees up to 86% of the time during peak crop seasons, helping to reduce human-elephant conflict for local farm.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 29th, 2024

Daylight saving time linked to lost worker productivity

As much of the world prepares to turn clocks back an hour this fall, new research from the University of Oregon finds the annual spring forward to daylight saving time affects worker productivity more than previously thought......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 29th, 2024

Mars may have been habitable much more recently than thought

Evidence suggests Mars could very well have been teeming with life billions of years ago. Now cold, dry, and stripped of what was once a potentially protective magnetic field, the red planet is a kind of forensic scene for scientists investigating wh.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 29th, 2024

How a solid waste landfill transformed into a concerning elevated temperature landfill

New research explains how the Bristol Virginia Solid Waste Landfill has undergone a significant transformation into an elevated temperature landfill. Elevated temperature landfills are a specific type of landfill where buried waste undergoes chemical.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 29th, 2024

Have we found all the major Maya cities? Not even close, new research suggests

Archaeologists have analyzed lidar data from a completely unstudied corner of the Maya world in Campeche, Mexico, revealing 6,674 undiscovered Maya structures, including pyramids like those at the famous sites of Chichén Itzá or Tikal......»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsOct 28th, 2024

New USB-C Magic Mouse still has the charging port on the bottom

There are a lot of memes on the internet about Apple’s Magic Mouse as users have to turn it upside down to plug it into the charger. But if you thought Apple would change that with the new Magic Mouse launched today, we have some bad news. Although.....»»

Category: gadgetSource:  9to5macRelated NewsOct 28th, 2024