The fact that historical archives, libraries, museums, writing workshops and even monasteries, currently conserve medieval manuscripts is not only a question of heroes or ordinary people who went through the trouble to save ...
Archaeology
Feb 6, 2019
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Process engineers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have developed a method to determine the size and shape of nanoparticles in dispersions considerably faster than ever before. Based on gold nanorods, ...
Nanomaterials
Nov 29, 2018
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Stone tools from the Middle Stone Age in South Africa shows that different communities were connected over long time periods over vast geographical areas.
Archaeology
Nov 9, 2018
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Archaeologists now have new tools for studying the development of medieval villages and the transformation of the historical landscapes surrounding them. In a study recently published in EPJ Plus, scientists have attempted ...
General Physics
Oct 9, 2018
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On the island of Torcello, at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice excavation site, some protagonists of the island's thousand-year history have begun to emerge. A tomb datable to around 700 A.D. has recently been unearthed ...
Archaeology
Oct 2, 2018
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If you want to know anything about the Viking Age, Ribe, in west Denmark, is the place to go.
Archaeology
Sep 13, 2018
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Science fiction may seem resolutely modern, but the genre could actually be considered hundreds of years old. There are the alien green "children of Woolpit", who appeared in 12th-century Suffolk and were reported to have ...
Social Sciences
Sep 12, 2018
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Experts from the University of Warwick have contributed to new thinking on tackling inequalities associated with older age in lower and middle income countries.
Social Sciences
Sep 12, 2018
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The Middle Ages – spanning the 5th to 13th centuries – witnessed the rise of the Catholic Church, the spread of Islam and social and political transformation that laid the foundation for the Renaissance and modern Western ...
Environment
Jun 8, 2018
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Immersive experiences are fashionable at the moment, as virtual reality finally emerges into the mainstream with headsets now commercially available. But immersion is a technique much older than technology. It is the key ...
Other
May 16, 2018
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