Sci-Tech
How Your Native Language Shapes Your Brain's Information Processing Network
A person's native language may shape how their brain builds connections between different hubs of information processing, a new brain scan study …
Culture
Astrological Surprises in Ancient Egyptian Art: The Temple of Esna Zodiacs
Looking to the stars for constellations that preside over birth and life has a long and complex history, and archaeologists have just uncovered a sma…
Sci-Tech
Scientists want to clone a Siberian bison extinct around 8,000 years ago
Researchers in Russia recently completed a necropsy, or animal autopsy, on a stunningly intact extinct bison that was unearthed from Siberian permafr…
Culture
Beethoven's DNA Analysis Sheds Light on his Mysterious Death
The world renowned composer Ludwig van Beethoven was infected with hepatitis B when he died, according to the first ever DNA analysis of the deaf m…
Sci-Tech
Metallic Cockroach Species Found Preserved in Unique Late Cretaceous Amber
Alienopterix santonicus was found preserved in a piece of ajkaite, a unique Late Cretaceous type of amber from western Hungary. “Cockroaches are o…
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Stunning Images of Rare Circular Sand Dunes Captured on Mars by NASA's MRO
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured stunning images of almost perfectly round sand dunes on the surface of the Red Planet. Whil…
Sci-Tech
Reevaluating the Size of Dunkleosteus Terrelli: A Chunky Superpredator of the Devonian Period
Dunkleosteus terrelli, an armor-plated fish that lived in the shallow subtropical waters of the Devonian period, about 360 million years ago, is one …
Sci-Tech
Triple Quasar Merger Results in 300 Billion Solar Mass Ultramassive Black Hole
Glimpsed only occasionally at the hearts of massive clusters of galaxies, ultramassive black holes are some of the largest and most elusive objects i…
Economy
Silicon Valley Bank: Finance expert explains the impact of largest US bank failure since 2008
Silicon Valley Bank, which catered to the tech industry for three decades, collapsed on March 10, 2023, after the Santa Clara, California-based len…
Sci-Tech
Controlling the State of Quantum Light could be the Key to Unlock New Frontiers in Science
The world we observe around us can be described according to the laws of classical physics, but once we observe things at an atomic scale, the strang…
