John Glenn still inspires 55 years after his 1st orbit
John Glenn is continuing to inspire 55 years after becoming the first American to orbit Earth.
Space Exploration
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Our hominid ancestors made and used tools
Neil Norman found the tools when he and Bruce Larson were walking down the local wadi, a usually dry watercourse that hadn't moved much in a long, long time.
Archaeology
Jan 16, 2017
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Dutch return looted 2nd century marble head to Italy
Dutch police have returned to Italy a 2nd century marble head that was stolen from a famous archaeological site outside Rome and offered up for auction in Amsterdam.
Archaeology
Dec 2, 2016
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Tool or weapon? New research throws light on stone artifacts' use as ancient projectiles
A team of psychologists, kinesiologists and archaeologists at Indiana University and elsewhere are throwing new light on a longstanding archaeological mystery: the purpose of a large number of spherical stone artifacts found ...
Archaeology
Aug 18, 2016
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High dynamic range imaging via robust multi-exposure image fusion
Multi-exposure image fusion (MEF) can produce an image with high dynamic range (HDR) effect by fusing multiple images with different exposures. The conventional MEF methods require significant pre/post-processing steps to ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 1, 2016
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France returns head of Hindu statue taken 130 years ago
The head of a Hindu deity's statue from the 7th century was returned by France and reattached to its body Thursday for display at a museum, more than 130 years after it was spirited away.
Archaeology
Jan 21, 2016
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4,000 artifacts stored at Oregon refuge held by armed group (Update)
Thousands of archaeological artifacts—and maps detailing where more can be found—are kept inside the national wildlife refuge buildings currently being held by an armed group of protestors angry over federal land policy.
Archaeology
Jan 15, 2016
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Polish river reveals 17th century secrets amid drought
Archeologists are having a field day in Poland's longest river, the Vistula, which because of a drought has hit a record low water level allowing them to uncover a treasure trove of ancient artifacts.
Archaeology
Sep 4, 2015
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3-D printing revives bronze-age music
Billy Ó Foghlú, from The Australian National University (ANU), has found evidence that the artifact may have been a mouthpiece from an iron-age horn and not a spear-butt as previously thought.
Engineering
Sep 2, 2015
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At Jordan site, drone offers glimpse of antiquities looting
At a sprawling Bronze Age cemetery in southern Jordan, archaeologists have developed a unique way of peering into the murky world of antiquities looting: With aerial photographs taken by a homemade drone, researchers are ...
Archaeology
Apr 3, 2015
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