Volunteering for cranial surgery in medieval Italy
Sometime in the period from the 6th to the 8th century, a woman willingly underwent surgery to scrape a hole into the top of her skull. The procedure must have gone well, at least well enough for her to survive and to try it several more times......»»
Apple’s Self Service Repair program launches in Europe
The countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. Enlarge / Some of the tools and parts offered in Apple's Self Service Repair program appear in this photo. (credit: Apple) As of Tuesday,.....»»
Using lasers to bond semiconductor electronics components
Today, lasers are well-established in daily life, even if it is sometimes hard to tell what and where they are. As an example, we can find them in CD/DVD readers or medical applications like cancer and eye surgery, being essential tools in a vast ran.....»»
Seaweed molecules used to improve outcomes for bypass surgery
Researchers are using a natural material derived from seaweed to promote vascular cell growth, prevent blood clots and improve the performance of synthetic vascular grafts used in heart bypass surgery......»»
Lost medieval chapel sheds light on royal burials at Westminster Abbey, finds new study on 15th-century reconstruction
New evidence, helping to form a 15th-century reconstruction of part of Westminster Abbey, demonstrates how a section of the building was once the focus for the royal family's devotion to the cult of a disemboweled saint and likely contained gruesome.....»»
Examining the pandemic"s impact on individual generosity
How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect people's volunteering, donating, and helping behaviors? A report by Penn's School of Social Policy and Practice (SP2) faculty and students summarizes a nationally representative study aiming to answer this questio.....»»
Ancient DNA from medieval Germany tells origin story of Ashkenazi Jews
Excavating ancient DNA from teeth, an international group of scientists peered into the lives of a once thriving medieval Ashkenazi Jewish community in Erfurt, Germany. The findings, shared today in the JournalCell, show that the Erfurt Jewish commun.....»»
Italy declares state of emergency after deadly island landslide
Italy declared a state of emergency on the southern island of Ischia on Sunday after a landslide killed at least seven people and left several others missing......»»
Tracing changes to the human diet during the transition from hunting to agriculture
A large team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions across Italy has used DNA found in the dental calculus of ancient peoples to help trace changes to the human diet during the transition from hunting to agriculture in Italy over thous.....»»
Malicious apps masquerade as Android file managers to spread malware
Android users in the UK and Italy targeted by Sharkbot malware from multiple apps......»»
Graphene scientists explore electronic materials with nanoscale curved geometries
In a recently published paper in Nature Electronics, an international research group from Italy, Germany, the UK, and China examined significant development directions in the field of electronic materials with curved geometries at the nanoscale. From.....»»
Review of more than 1,000 articles seeks to understand how nanomaterials affect plants
Researchers at the University of São Paulo's Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA-USP) in Brazil, collaborating with colleagues in Canada, France, Italy and Spain, reviewed 1,154 original scientific articles published between 2009 and 2022.....»»
Damage in 5.7-magnitude quake off Italy"s Adriatic coast
A moderate earthquake shook Italy's northeastern coast early Wednesday, causing some cracks in buildings and prompting at least one health clinic to evacuate. There were no immediate reports of injuries......»»
Discovery of bronzes rewrites Italy"s Etruscan-Roman history
Italian authorities on Tuesday announced the extraordinary discovery of 2,000-year-old bronze statues in an ancient Tuscan thermal spring and said the find will "rewrite history" about the transition from the Etruscan civilization to the Roman Empire.....»»
Get ready to go medieval on some zombie ass in Blight: Survival
Just over a year ago, indy developer Haenir Studio quietly announced on Reddit that it was developing its first game called Blight: Survival. The two-person team has since worked on the project in their spare time. The developers have not revealed mu.....»»
Researchers discover new recipe for extending shelf life of fresh pasta by 30 days
Pasta is serious business in Italy, with reportedly more than 300 specific forms known by some 1,300 names. There is even a 55-year-old "pasta law" that governs its production and manufacture. But that doesn't mean the beloved food staple is shut off.....»»
Ten bathrooms where the sink takes centre stage
In our latest lookbook, we've rounded up 10 bathrooms with statement sinks, including a house in southern Italy with a sink overlooking a gulf and a tropical apartment with a red-brick basin. Read more In our latest lookbook, we've rounded u.....»»
This small airport in Italy is now a major concert venue
Unused space on the fringe of a landing strip is reimagined. Like most airports around the world, the Reggio Emilia Airport outside of Bologna, Italy, has a huge footprint, measuring hundreds of acres. Much of that land is an unused buffer zone .....»»
Carbonized polymer dots enhance stability and flexibility of quasi-2D perovskite photodetector
High-performance photodetectors with great detection capability have been widely deployed in our daily life, such as driverless technology, intraoperative navigated surgery, face recognition, anti-counterfeiting, and so on. However, we still face cha.....»»
Part of lost star catalog of Hipparchus found lurking under medieval codex
Multispectral imaging revealed hidden original text on Codex Climaci Rescriptus. Multispectral imaging revealed hidden original text from St. Catherine's Monastery over the top of faint tracings on the Codex Climaci Rescriptus palimpsest......»»
First Known Map of Night Sky Found Hidden in Medieval Parchment
The fabled star catalog from the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus had been feared lost.....»»