Nearly 2,000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius buried a vast collection of scrolls in ash and scorched them into solid black lumps. Now, without unrolling them, researchers have virtually read two of them — ...
To get to the bottom of the 500-year-old Medici cold case, an international group of researchers tested the bones of two of Cosimo I's sons: Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici and Grand Duke Francesco I de' ...
Planet Earth Climate change 'Uncharted territory': Record high ocean temperatures confirmed for June as El Niño strengthens its grip Global sea surface temperatures reached record highs for June as a ...
Physics & Mathematics Particle Physics CERN shuts down Large Hadron Collider until 2030, upgrading the atom smasher to its most powerful form yet The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom ...
Space Astronomy Strawberry Moon 2026: Tonight's full moon is the lowest, and one of the smallest 'micromoons' all year June's full Strawberry Moon will be the lowest-hanging and one of the smallest ...
Planet Earth Plants 66 billion trees have been planted in China's Great Green Wall — and they appear to be growing faster than natural forests A study of China's planted and natural forests reveals ...
Dead-end bitcoin mining wastes as much energy as Switzerland's entire hydropower generation capacity
Network latency in bitcoin mining is driving massive energy waste — the annual equivalent of the total generation capacity of Switzerland's entire hydroelectric power system, scientists say. This ...
Elsewhere in space, JWST captured the formation of a distant star, 1,280 light-years away in the constellation Orion, while the Euclid space telescope snapped the most detailed photo of the Milky Way ...
Psychedelics may rewire the brain to treat PTSD. Scientists are finally beginning to understand how.
The root of these symptoms lie in how trauma shapes changes in the brain in the weeks and months after a frightening event. The brain's fear center — the amygdala — becomes hyperactive, constantly ...
That's because noise comes from various sources, many of which scientists have no control over. These include unpredictable disturbances in Earth's magnetic field, nearby radiation from Wi-Fi routers ...
Planet Earth Rivers & Oceans Collapse of key Atlantic currents may be held off by newly-discovered back-up system, study finds Rising temperatures in the North Atlantic are slowing vital currents, but ...
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