Australian researchers studying declassified spy satellite images have found widespread remains of ancient human settlements dating back 130,000 years in Syria.
The photographs were taken by United States military surveillance satellites operating u...
Dozens of megafauna (large animals over 100 pounds) – such as giant tortoises, horses, elephants, and cheetah – went extinct in North America13,000 years ago during the end of the Pleistocene. As is the case today in Africa and Asia, these megafauna ...
Five archaeologists were ripped from terra firma by a freak tornado that whipped its way through Lincolnshire yesterday.
The archaeologists and archaeology students, working at a sand and gravel pit at Baston, were sheltering from the thunderstor...
The Royal Navy's newest super-submarine, Astute, will be launched at 11am today by HRH Duchess of Cornwall at the BAE Systems shipyard in Barrow, Cumbria. ... Astute is the first nuclear submarine to be launched in the UK for almost a decade. She has...
A lightweight solar-powered plane has smashed the official world record for the longest-duration unmanned flight. ... UK defence firm Qinetiq, which built the Zephyr unmanned aerial vehicle, said it flew for 54 hours during tests. ... The researchers...
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new type of mobile robot that balances on a ball instead of legs or wheels. "Ballbot" is a self-contained, battery-operated, omnidirectional robot that balances dynamically on a single urethane-...
TiO2 Nanoparticles Cause Systemic Genetic Damage in Mice ... Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles, found in everything from cosmetics to sunscreen to paint to vitamins, caused systemic genetic damage in mice, according to a comprehensive stud...
Evidence from ancient European graves raises questions about ritual human sacrifice ... A fascinating new paper from the June issue of Current Anthropology explores ancient multiple graves and raises the possibility that hunter gatherers in what is n...
Spaniards discover forgotten Euphrates city ... They have renamed it the city recovered from the Euphrates and it is found in the Syrian enclave of Tall Qabr on the banks of the river that, with the Tigris, was the centre of the birth of civi...
Pieces from the world's most famous chess set are going on display in museums in Aberdeen, Stornoway and Lerwick from next year, it was announced yesterday. ... The British Museum, National Museums Scotland and Scottish Government have teamed up to g...
A University of Washington computer scientist has led a statistical study of the Indus script, comparing the pattern of symbols to various linguistic scripts and nonlinguistic systems, including DNA and a computer programming language. The results, p...
This month, another anniversary has taken place, but one quite obscure except to some dealers, collectors and researchers of meteorites. Eighty-six years ago, on Nov. 9, 1923, a then-unknown, middle-aged science professor named Harvey Nininger was wa...
Russia gained 4.5 square kilometres from a 2007 quake on Sakhalin Island and from lava flows this summer on uninhabited Matua Island, both of which lie north of Japan, said geologist Boris Levin. ... The powerful 2007 quake near the Sakhalin Island t...
Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem of unknown authorship, dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex manuscript from between the 8th and the early 11th century, set in Denmark and Sweden. Commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo...
Common fish species has 'human' ability to learn ... Although worlds apart, the way fish learn could be closer to humans' way of thinking than previously believed, research suggests. ... A common species of fish which is found across Europe in...
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