The U.S. Senate voted mostly along party lines 54-46 late March 14 to pass a spending bill known as a continuing resolution, which will fund the federal government for the rest of its fiscal year ending Sept. 30. The bill includes about $7…
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Royal tomb of unknown pharaoh discovered in Mount Anubis necropolis
A joint Egyptian-American archaeological mission has discovered a royal tomb from the Second Intermediate Period (1700 to 1550 BC) in the Mount Anubis necropolis.
The “Mountain-of-Anubis” is a sacred mountain with a pyramidal peak in the…
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New Bird Species Identified in Indonesia
A cryptic new species of the honeyeater genus Myzomela has been described by an international team of ornithologists from Malaysia, India, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The Babar myzomela (Myzomela babarensis). Image credit: James…
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Are New York Construction Workers Safer? Depends on How Your Count
On the afternoon of November 6, 2023, Francisco Lumbreras, 52, was working for a site preparation contractor in the Bronx applying grease with a grease gun to a fitting located in the back of a ready-mix delivery truck. He took a step or two…
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Cult centre revealed at ancient Amphipolis
Archaeologists excavating ancient Amphipolis have uncovered a cult centre from the 4th century BC.
Amphipolis was an ancient Greek polis, and later a Roman city, located in the modern municipality of Amphipoli, northern Greece.
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Hera Captures Images of Mars and Its Moon Deimos
On March 12, 2025, Hera — ESA’s first Space Safety mission — came to within 5,000 km of the surface of Mars and 1,000 km of Deimos. While performing the flyby, the spacecraft made the first use of its payload for scientific purposes…
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Smoke from wildland-urban interface fires more deadly than remote wildfires
The smoke from fires that blaze through the wildland-urban interface (WUI) has far greater health impacts than smoke from wildfires in remote areas, new research finds.
The study, published this week in Science Advances, estimates that emissions…
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‘Microlightning’ in water droplets may have sparked life on Earth
Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets from crashing waterfalls or breaking waves.
New research from Stanford University shows that water…
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Sharks are dying at alarming rates, mostly due to fishing. Retention bans may help
Despite the fear they may inspire in humans, sharks have far more reason to fear us. Nearly one-third of sharks are threatened with extinction globally, mostly as a result of fishing.
A team led by researchers at UC Santa Barbara discovered that…
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Scientists use light to unlock secret of atoms
A team of researchers from the University of Ottawa has made significant strides in understanding the ionization of atoms and molecules, a fundamental process in physics that has implications for various fields including x-ray generation and…
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