The Roman Coronagraph Instrument on NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help pave the way in the search for habitable worlds outside our solar system by testing new tools that block starlight, revealing planets ...
Astronomy
May 21, 2024
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A skeleton, possibly dating from Roman times, has been unearthed by archaeologists from the University of Bristol during a dig in the garden of vaccination pioneer Dr Edward Jenner in Berkeley, Gloucestershire.
Archaeology
Jun 9, 2011
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The powers of poison will be on full display in New York's Museum of Natural History starting Saturday, when a new exhibit opens.
Plants & Animals
Nov 13, 2013
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Ivory from an ancient shipwreck off Spain is providing data that might aid conservation of modern elephant populations.
Plants & Animals
Jun 29, 2023
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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team is exploring ways to support community efforts that will prepare for the deluge of data the mission will return. Recently selected infrastructure teams will serve a vital role ...
Astronomy
Oct 10, 2023
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In December 2007 a team of experts, led by The University of Nottingham, unveiled an extraordinary set of high-resolution images that gave an insight into the plan of the Roman town of Venta Icenorum at Caistor St Edmund ...
Archaeology
Jun 24, 2009
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When a grave was discovered in Wels 20 years ago, the find was thought to be an early medieval double burial of a married couple and a horse due to its unusual features. Only now could the biological gender and family relationships ...
Archaeology
May 3, 2024
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A geologic fault system in central Italy that produced a deadly earthquake in 2016 is also responsible for a fifth-century earthquake that damaged many Roman monuments, including the Colosseum, according to new research.
Earth Sciences
Mar 5, 2019
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Diseases that ravage wheat fields are as old as time itself. The ancient Romans even had a legend to explain the terrible plagues.
Ecology
Jun 10, 2011
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A teenage saint whose 750-year-old mummified body lay for centuries in a church in central Italy probably died of a congenital heart defect, scientists said Thursday.
Archaeology
Jun 10, 2010
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