Enlarge / Fragment of the Antikythera Mechanism, circa 205 BC, kept in the collection of the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Visual Arts/Heritage Images/Getty Image The inspiration for the title device in last year’s blockbuster, Indiana Jones and the Dial Destinywas a real archaeological artifact: the Antikythera Mechanism, a 2,200-year-old bronze mechanical computer. It has no … Read more
How did the woolly mammoth, an ambassador of the Ice Age, come to be trapped in modern-day Wrangel? … [+] Island? And what ultimately caused their extinction? New evidence suggests it wasn’t bad genetics as previously thought. getty Rising sea levels around 10,000 years ago transformed Wrangel Island into a last refuge for the woolly … Read more
Painting of a griffin, a chimera of a lion bird of prey, next to the fossils of Protoceratopesa horned dinosaur. The latter would have influenced the lore and appearance of the former, but our study suggests there is no compelling connection between dinosaurs and griffins. Credit: Dr Mark Witton A new study refutes the theory … Read more
A special high-speed winch that the researchers used to quickly raise and lower instruments to track the movements of the dye underwater. Credit: San Nguyen Until now, no large-scale ocean circulation in which deep water rises to the surface had ever been observed. For the first time, researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply log in to the Private assets myFT Digest – delivered straight to your inbox. Defaults on loans to risky borrowers, a lifeline for private equity-owned firms, have risen by 250 percent, according to the Bank of England, which warned that the sector “faces challenges in the higher interest rate … Read more
To understand the origins of this carbon, the Chinese research team said a study of young lunar samples – just 2 billion years old – could help them unravel “the crystalline structure of the native carbon” present on the moon. After analyzing the graphene found in the sample, the researchers concluded that the moon may … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Artist’s impression of a microlensing event caused by a black hole observed from Earth towards the Large Magellanic Cloud. The light from a background star in the GMC is diffracted by a putative primordial black hole (lens) in the Milky … Read more
If you squeeze enough stuff into one place, space-time itself will contract in a sweet cosmic kiss known as a black hole. As far as Einstein’s sums go, that “stuff” includes the massless glow of electromagnetic radiation. Given E = mc2which describes the equivalence between mass and energy, the energy of light itself should – … Read more
Using gravitational lensing, scientists have discovered that dark matter can extend more than a million light-years from galactic centers, proposing significant adjustments to our theories of gravity or the concept of dark matter itself. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Groundbreaking new research shows that the rotation curves of galaxies remain flat far away, confirming the predictions of modified … Read more
Light phone III light The irony underlying this article is that I learned about the Light Phone III while endlessly scrolling through articles on my iPhone, something the Light Phone III absolutely cannot do. And that’s the point. The Light Phone III is Light’s latest consumer-focused attempt to disconnect us from the blaring distractors that … Read more