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Archaeology Jul 30, 2025

Take fish, salt in vats, leave in sun for months: Why ancient Romans loved fermented fish sauces like garum

If you slipped back through time to taste a dish from the Roman Empire, you'd likely be sampling some fermented fish sauce.

Archaeology Jul 28, 2025

Ancient Romans likely used extinct sea creature fossils as amulets

At the Roman settlement of A Cibdá de Armea in northwestern Spain, archaeologists uncovered evidence suggesting that ancient Romans adorned their amulets with fossils of extinct marine arthropods, like trilobites, possibly ...

Space Exploration Jul 16, 2025

Largest piece of Mars on Earth fetches $5.3 million at auction, but young dinosaur steals the show

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday. But a rare young dinosaur skeleton stole the show when ...

Paleontology & Fossils Jul 16, 2025

Fossil discovery reveals ancient giant marine reptile relied on stealth while hunting in darkness

A new study has uncovered evidence that a giant marine reptile from the Early Jurassic period used stealth to hunt its prey in deep or dark waters—much like owls on land today.

General Physics Jul 14, 2025

Development of revolutionizing photo-induced microscopy and its use around the globe celebrated in new publication

Photo-induced force microscopy began as a concept in the mind of Kumar Wickramasinghe when he was employed by IBM in the early years of the new millennium. After he came to the University of California, Irvine in 2006, the ...

Space Exploration Jul 13, 2025

The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going up for auction in New York

For sale: A 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock. Estimated auction price: $2 million to $4 million. Why so expensive? It's the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

Evolution Jul 9, 2025

Ancient rhino tooth protein recovery illuminates family tree

Scientists have shed new light on the rhino family tree after recovering a protein sequence from a fossilized tooth from more than 20 million years ago. The recovered protein sequences allowed researchers to determine that ...

Paleontology & Fossils Jul 7, 2025

North America's oldest known pterosaur unearthed in Petrified Forest National Park

A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America's oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs and were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight.

Earth Sciences Jul 7, 2025

How should we get rid of CO₂? These scientists want to turn it into stone

We are going back 55 million years. That was when Greenland and Norway began to drift apart, causing the Atlantic Ocean to open up. The Earth's crust between them became thinner and thinner, and enormous amounts of lava poured ...

Archaeology Jul 4, 2025

Rare wooden tools from Stone Age China reveal plant-based lifestyle of ancient lakeside humans

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, the tools have now been ...

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