Archaeologists from the University of Cologne have deciphered parts of the Kuschana script that has puzzled researchers for over seventy years.
The Kuschana script is a writing system used in parts of central Asia that is associated with the early…
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This Carnegie Mellon Researcher Says Tesla Started a Revolution by Advancing EV Performance Specs
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Where I live, in Berkeley, CA, it can seem like every other car is either a…
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A 407-million-year-old plant’s leaves skipped the usual Fibonacci spirals
An unusual arrangement of leaves in a 407-million-year-old fossilized plant is complicating scientists’ understanding of plant evolution.
Most land plants living today have spiral patterns involving the famous Fibonacci sequence of…
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INAH Archaeologists explore catacombs of Hueypoxtla ancestors
Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) are conducting a study of the catacombs beneath the church of Saint Bartholomew Parish in Hueypoxtla, Mexico.
Saint Bartholomew Parish is a Catholic church in the…
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Austria’s oldest Bronze Age plague victims identified
A research project led by the Austrian Academy of Sciences has identified the plague pathogen in two young adults who lived 4,000-years-ago during the Bronze Age.
The plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis that…
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Study weighs distant supermassive black holes
Near the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy sits an immense “supermassive” black hole that astronomers call Sagittarius A*.
Scientists theorise that the black hole grew in tandem with our galaxy, and suspect that similar phenomena are at the heart…
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SCS Researchers Build New Generation of 3D Sensors With Micrometer-Scale Resolution
Researchers at CMU and the Israel Institute of Technology’s Technion have created 3D sensors that capture micron-scale depth detail, like the raised height of Washington’s head on a U.S. quarter.
Ever wonder what the raised height of…
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Why We All Lose When Companies Keep Their Scientific Findings Secret
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Radium is an element,” the chemist Marie Curie once told an interviewer. “It…
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CMU Collaborates with Fujitsu Researchers on Breakthrough in Dynamic 3D Structure Representation
“Working with 2D images to create a 3D structure is a complex process that requires a deep understanding of how to handle deformations and changes. DyLiN is our answer to this problem, and it has already shown significant improvements over…
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Chimú Culture constructed 10 km wall to protect capital against El Niño events
Archaeologists conducting a study of the Muralla La Cumbre, a 10 km wall in northern Peru, have concluded that the Chimú Culture constructed the wall to protect the capital of Chan Chan against El Niño events.
The Chimú culture emerged around…
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