Blowing up medieval gunpowder recipes
First used for battle in China in about 900 A.D., gunpowder spread throughout Eurasia by the end of the 13th century, eventually revolutionizing warfare as a propellant in firearms and artillery. Meanwhile, master gunners tinkered with gunpowder form.....»»
Examining late medieval to early modern stone engravings created by prisoners in a castle dungeon
Castles served to enforce law and order during the Middle Ages and the early modern era. Often, they had facilities to hold people captive. The Questenburg near Sangerhausen (Mansfeld-Südharz district) was probably built in the middle of the 13th ce.....»»
Modern medicine"s Middle Ages roots—how the logic of vulture brain remedies and bloodletting lives on today
Nothing calls to mind nonsensical treatments and bizarre religious healing rituals as easily as the notion of Dark Age medicine. "The Saturday Night Live" sketch "Medieval Barber Theodoric of York" says it all with its portrayal of a quack doctor who.....»»
Storm Ciarán is breaking records and research suggests more severe weather in future
Storm Ciarán made landfall in south-west England and northern France overnight on November 1, with heavy rain and winds blowing up to 180 kilometers per hour (108 mph)......»»
"Mind-blowing": Astronomers spot most distant radio burst yet
Eight billion years ago, something happened in a distant galaxy that sent an incredibly powerful blast of radio waves hurtling through the universe......»»
Mysterious rock depicted in 15th-century painting is most likely a Stone Age tool
Why medieval painter Jean Fouquet chose to depict Acheulean hand ax remains a mystery. Enlarge / Detail from left panel of the Melun Diptych (circa 1455) by medieval French painter and miniaturist Jean Fouquet. The strangely shap.....»»
Mysterious rock depicted in 15th century painting is most likely a Stone Age tool
Why medieval painter Jean Fouquet chose to depict Acheulean hand ax remains a mystery. Enlarge / Detail from left panel of the the Melun Diptych (circa 1455) by medieval French painter and miniaturist Jean Fouquet. The strangely.....»»
Scroll depicting rat wedding banquet provides important insight about cooking in medieval Japan
Rats in the kitchen. Typically that implies issues with cleanliness and safety. But in medieval Japan, having rats in the kitchen could suggest an entirely different meaning......»»
September sizzled to records and was so much warmer than average scientists call it "mind-blowing"
After a summer of record-smashing heat, warming somehow got even worse in September as Earth set a new mark for how far above normal temperatures were, the European climate agency reported Thursday......»»
Inuit hunters blame cruise ships as narwhal disappear
To hunt the narwhal, whose long tusk was the unicorn horn of medieval myth, you need absolute silence......»»
Cook the "perfect" lasagna and other recipes from "Lessons in Chemistry" on Apple TV+
Apple TV+ has partnered with Instacart for sponsored "Chemistry Carts" with ingredients needed to cook recipes shown on the upcoming "Lessons in Chemistry."'Lessons in Chemistry' on InstacartA drama based on bestselling "Lessons in Chemistry" is comi.....»»
Students made Oxford the murder capital of late medieval England, research suggests
A project mapping medieval England's known murder cases has now added Oxford and York to its street plan of London's 14th century slayings, and found that Oxford's student population was by far the most lethally violent of all social or professional.....»»
The history of syphilis is being rewritten by a medieval skeleton
Columbus may not have brought syphilis back to the Old World after all. Enlarge In the last days of the 1400s, a terrible epidemic swept through Europe. Men and women spiked sudden fevers. Their joints ached, and they b.....»»
A Medieval French Skeleton Is Rewriting the History of Syphilis
Christopher Columbus was blamed for bringing syphilis to Europe. New DNA evidence suggests it was already there. Maybe both stories are true......»»
New recipes for origin of life may point way to distant, inhabited planets
Life on a faraway planet—if it's out there—might not look anything like life on Earth. But there are only so many chemical ingredients in the universe's pantry, and only so many ways to mix them. A team led by scientists at the University of Wisc.....»»
Funky AI-generated spiraling medieval village captivates social media
"This was the point where AI-generated art passed the Turing Test for me." Enlarge / The original AI-generated spiral village that captivated social media, created using Stable Diffusion and ControlNet. (credit: Ugleh / Stable Di.....»»
A medieval manuscript likely hides a record of an impending recurrent nova
Approximately every 80 years, a faint 10th magnitude star in the constellation of Corona Borealis dramatically increases its brightness. This star, T CrB, is known as a recurrent nova and last flared in 1946, peaking at magnitude 2.0, temporarily mak.....»»
Medieval French narrative reveals that the complexity of gender identity spans centuries
Gender and gender identity may seem like more recent headline-grabbing topics, but societies have discussed the subjects for centuries. A new approach to reading a medieval French narrative text suggests that gender identity 600 years ago was just as.....»»
New Samsung Food app can help you master the art of cooking right at home
Powered by AI technology, the app acts as your personal assistant by helping you find new recipes and create new ones......»»
Research sheds new light on York"s thriving medieval Jewish Community
Researchers have shed new light on York's medieval Jewish population, unearthing new documents and evidence which points to a thriving community where the chief Jewish citizens of the city were also some of the most important figures in England......»»
Gold buckyballs, oft-used nanoparticle "seeds" found to be one and the same
Rice University chemists have discovered that tiny gold "seed" particles, a key ingredient in one of the most common nanoparticle recipes, are one and the same as gold buckyballs, 32-atom spherical molecules that are cousins of the carbon buckyballs.....»»