The Mayor of Madrid José Luis Martínez-Almeida has assured that the City Council intends to "turn Madrid into the largest digital hub in southern Europe" that brings together innovation, talent and knowledge in order...
A team of American researchers using the example of starfish studied how living organisms become symmetrical.
All multicellular organisms originate from a single oocyte - the female reproductive cell, the precursor of the egg, which...
The toilet is a U-shaped line of seats that 13 actors could use at the same time.
In Turkey, archaeologists have discovered an ancient latrine that allowed at least a dozen people not only to...
The first mentions of the city of Lakhish date back to the 15th century BC, in Egyptian sources it appears no later than the 14th century BC. This ancient city, which the Bible also...
Fragments of pottery, flint tools and bone remains have been discovered in Jordan by archaeologists from the Jagiellonian University under megaliths dating back about 5,000 years. Perhaps these ancient structures were not only burial...
More and more news appears in the media about how Artificial Intelligence begins to make decisions on its own, but gets out of control. He educates himself on controlled data, but even that does...
Lancaster nurse Buffy Bailey discovered a miniature golden Bible with the help of a metal detector along with her husband Ian near York.
The security may have once been owned by a royal family.
The 600-year-old...
“In astrophysics, we have only this one universe which we can observe,” Mark Vogelsberger, an MIT physics professor, says. “With a computer, we can create different universes, which we can check.”
For all its brilliant...
Unusual clusters on neurons are calcium-signaling “hotspots” that activate gene transcription, allowing neurons to produce crucial proteins.
For 30 years, mysterious clusters of proteins found on the cell body of neurons in the hippocampus, a...
In 15 BC, in an alpine gorge, a battle took place between the Roman troops and the reta.
Two years ago, Lucas Schmid, an amateur archaeologist and volunteer at the Archaeological Survey of the Canton...
The city of Las Vegas, in the United States, has approved the expansion of a tunnel system called the Vegas Loop. The total length of the network will be 47 km, it will unite...
On October 17, the first ever Earthshot Prize ceremony took place in London's Alexandra Palace, which has already been nicknamed the "Environmental Nobel Prize". One of the nominations is awarded to those who work...
Virgin Galactic has sold about 100 tickets to interested space tourists. Since the company's founder Richard Branson flew into space last summer, the company has enjoyed an unprecedented interest in space tourism. The first...
Speed Dating with scientists from the Leibniz Institute DSMZ in Braunschweig Book a Scientist: Prof. Dr. Yvonne Mast and Dr. Julia Koblitz from the DSMZ
On 10 November 2021, people with a thirst for knowledge...
The technology will not be used until regulations are introduced
Facebook owner Meta has announced that it is shutting down the facial recognition system on the largest social network. The reason is the doubts and...
Falling into a black hole is easily the worst way to die.
Halloween is a time to be haunted by ghosts, goblins, and ghouls, but nothing in the universe is scarier than a black hole.
Black...
Recently, astronomers have been finding protoplanetary discs around certain stars. Their discovery has helped kick off a new work in planetary formation theory. But planets aren’t the objects that form from discs of material...
This artist’s concept depicts astronauts and human habitats on Mars. NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will carry a number of technologies that could make Mars safer and easier to explore for humans. Credit: NASA
Is there...
Researchers developed a new fast and energy-efficient laser-writing method for producing nanostructures in silica glass. They used the method to record 6 GB data in a one-inch silica glass sample. The four squares pictured...
Scientific Questions Arrive in Ports
Satellite observations of nitrogen dioxide near key U.S. ports suggest that increased shipping activity and backlogs may be affecting air quality.
In October 2021, natural-color images from the Landsat and Terra satellites returned striking views...
The robot Xavier patrols the streets of Singapore on September 8, 2021. PHOTO / Suhaimi Abdullah / NurPhoto
A new step in surveillance? For a few weeks, robots with 360-degree cameras patrolled the streets...
Baylor sleep researcher Michael Scullin finds ‘earworms’ continue during sleep, can cause restless nights.
Most people listen to music throughout their day and often near bedtime to wind down. But can that actually cause your...
The preserved body of a high-ranking nobleman, discovered in 2019, turns out to be much older than previously thought, which could lead to rewriting of history textbooks
The ancient Egyptians performed complex procedures to mummify...
In December last year, the media reported an intriguing signal we at the Breakthrough Listen project found in our radio telescope data. Dubbed BLC1, the signal didn’t appear to be the result of any...
Life reconstruction of the dicynodont Dicynodon. Aside from the tusks in the upper jaw, most dicynodonts possessed a turtle-like beak that they used to chew their food. Image by Marlene Hill Donnelly. Credit: Marlene...