In 648 BCE, the Greek poet Archilochus wrote that "nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday, hiding the light of the gleaming sun."
Archaeology
Mar 12, 2024
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A team of geographers, climatologists and tree ring specialists affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. has found the number and degree of hot droughts in the western U.S. is unprecedented in the modern era. In ...
When a group of youths attacked shops and buildings in Tallinn, Estonia, on the evening of April 26, 2007, it sparked two days of civil unrest. This resulted in the death of a young man, injuries to 100 people, including ...
Social Sciences
Oct 12, 2023
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Two Scottish researchers are trying to piece together part of Scotland's religious past by combining hi-tech science with historical knowledge.
Archaeology
Feb 27, 2023
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Smallpox was once one of humanity's most devastating diseases, but its origin is shrouded in mystery. For years, scientific estimates of when the smallpox virus first emerged have been at odds with historical records. Now, ...
Evolution
Jan 9, 2023
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Researchers led by Dr. Lu Kaixing from Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have provided new insights into the broad-line region (BLR) of the active galactic nuclei (AGN), and achieved precise measurements ...
Astronomy
Nov 14, 2022
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A team of archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) made a rare discovery when they unearthed a small clay seal impression dating back some 7000 years. The impression, with two different geometric stamps ...
Archaeology
Jun 10, 2021
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade transported more than 9 million Africans to the Americas between the early 16th and the mid-19th centuries. In the past decade, scientists have utilized extensive genomic analyses to better understand ...
Evolution
Mar 4, 2020
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Researchers drawing on 100-year-old sources of salmon data have found that recent returns of wild adult sockeye salmon to the Skeena River—Canada's second largest salmon watershed— are 75 percent lower than during historical ...
Ecology
Aug 21, 2019
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Solar storms can be far more powerful than previously thought. A new study has found evidence for the third known case of a massive solar storm in historical times. The researchers believe that society might not be sufficiently ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 11, 2019
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