Oldest known cosmetics found in ceramic bottles on Balkan Peninsula
A trio of researchers from Slovenia's Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia at the Centre for Preventive Archaeology and Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, in Germany, has found evidence of the oldest known use of cosmetic.....»»
DIY digital archaeology: New methods for visualizing small objects and artifacts
The ability to visually represent artifacts, whether inorganics like stone, ceramic and metal, or organics such as bone and plant material, has always been of great importance to the field of anthropology and archaeology. For researchers, educators,.....»»
This is the oldest known use of the Maya calendar
It was almost destroyed by a construction project 2,200 years ago. Enlarge / An artist's sketch of what the 300-200 BCE temple complex at San Bartolo looked like in its heyday. (credit: Stuart et al. 2022) Amid rubble buried b.....»»
Method to control magnetic behavior in quantum material
Magnetism, one of the oldest technologies known to humans, is at the forefront of new-age materials that could enable next-generation lossless electronics and quantum computers. Researchers led by Penn State and the University of California, San Dieg.....»»
The world’s oldest pants are a 3,000-year-old engineering marvel
Strong in some places and flexible in others, the pants were designed for horseback riding. Enlarge (credit: Wagner et al. 2022) With the help of an expert weaver, archaeologists have unraveled the design secrets behind the wo.....»»
Stung by drought, Morocco"s bees face disaster
Morocco's village of Inzerki is proud to claim it has the world's oldest and largest collective beehive, but instead of buzzing with springtime activity, the colonies have collapsed amid crippling drought......»»
Lustrous-colored 3D printing using liquid crystals
What do cosmetics, car finishes, passports, bank notes, tropical insects, and oysters have in common? The color is formed through a specific microscopic organization of the matter making up the material, often called "iridescent" or "holographic," bo.....»»
Ingesting microscopic plastic affects the ability of mussels to grow and reproduce
Mussels in Port Phillip Bay near Melbourne are ingesting microscopic pieces of plastic used in cosmetics. And it's affecting their ability to grow and reproduce, an RMIT University eco-toxicologist has found......»»
Sea sponges need oxygen, as fish and people do
The inconspicuous sea sponges are Earth's oldest multicellular animals and have filtered the oceans for nearly 900 million years, long before the first plants appeared on land. New research appearing in the journal Fishery Bulletin, published by the.....»»
Tools reveal patterns of Neandertal extinction in the Iberian Peninsula
Neandertal populations in the Iberian Peninsula were experiencing local extinction and replacement even before Homo sapiens arrived, according to a study published March 30, 2022 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Joseba Rios-Garaizar of the Arch.....»»
How Intel Arc graphics could finally fix V-Sync
Intel revealed its new Arc Alchemist mobile GPUs, as well as two key features that could kill one of the oldest features in PC gaming......»»
Math’s ‘Oldest Problem Ever’ Gets a New Answer
A new proof significantly strengthens a decades-old result about the ubiquity of ways to represent whole numbers as sums of fractions......»»
From pacifiers to beer bottles, how one Babies R Us was transformed into a Dave & Buster’s
The original architects returned to give an unlikely second life to a shuttered store in Brooklyn. In the turbulent and fickle world of retail, designing and opening a store is an act of optimism. So it was that the newborn-focused retailer Babies R.....»»
How did Patrice Vermette design ‘Dune’? He started with two water bottles
Peek inside to see how this year’s Oscar favorite for production design created the desert world of Arrakis. Patrice Vermette holds two plastic water bottles up to the webcam. Whatever brand they once were (maybe Glacier Mountain, Kirkland, E.....»»
iPhone SE 3 screen survives drop test even without iPhone 13’s Ceramic Shield
Allstate Protection Plans is out today with the results from its iPhone SE 3 drop test. Interestingly, while the latest budget iPhone lacks the Ceramic Shield found on the iPhone 12 and 13, it was able to withstand a direct drop on its screen withou.....»»
Tong Hsing expects promising demand for automotive CIS devices
Tong Hsing Electronic Industries, which supplies ceramic substrates and backend services for CMOS image sensors (CIS) and other niche ICs, has expressed optimism that its strong shipments of automotive imaging products will bolster its 2022 revenue p.....»»
iPhone SE is just as tough as its much more expensive siblings
Despite lacking the iPhone 13's Ceramic Shield guard, the $429 iPhone SE proved to be nearly as durable as its pricey flagship sibling in a few real-life tests......»»
Better recycling required to remove potentially harmful chemicals from bottled drinks, new study warns
Researchers from Brunel University London found 150 chemicals that had leached into drinks from plastic bottles, with 18 of those chemicals found in levels exceeding regulations......»»
Buy your wine online and pay under $6 per bottle with this Wine Insiders deal
TL;DR: As of March 20, you can get 15 Bottles of Mixed Wines from Wine Insiders for just $85, which is 71% off their regular price of $300.Can you ever really have too much wine? Sometimes you want a sweet red. Other times you want a crisp white. And.....»»
Examining the colored skeletons of Çatalhöyük
An international team with participation of the University of Bern provides new insights about how the inhabitants of the "oldest city in the world" in Çatalhöyük (Turkey) buried their dead. Their bones were partially painted, excavated several ti.....»»
Study argues that language may not shape social outcomes
Does language shape thought? Do the languages we speak affect how we live our lives? These are some of the oldest questions in the cognitive and social sciences, and a handful of high-profile research articles in the social sciences have argued that.....»»