The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released 20 pages of training materials concerning the collection, processing, and analysis of biological evidence following fatal aviation accidents. The…
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Larry W. Bryant was a UFO researcher, writer, and government transparency advocate who pursued federal records through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). His work…
Read MoreThis article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free!I lost a cushy engineering management position at the same time I purchased a business, with a mortgage, three…
Britain’s towering Devil’s Arrows were built from 25-tonne stones hauled at least 18 kilometers from Brimham Rocks around 4,000 years ago. The discovery reveals an astonishing feat of prehistoric engineering and suggests the stones’ distant source may have been chosen for cultural or spiritual reasons.
Sculpture head of Eros KASTAMONU, TURKEY—Türkiye Today reports that mosaic flooring and a sculpture of the head of Eros, the god of love, have been uncovered in the basilica in the ancient city of Pompeiopolis, which is located in northern Turkey’s Black Sea region. Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Ersoy said that the basilica was…
SZIGETVAR, HUNGARY—The Anadolu Agency reports that excavations in southern Hungary at Szigetvar Castle have determined that Turbek, a settlement that developed around the tomb of the Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, was larger and more affluent than previously thought. Suleiman died the day before his siege of the castle ended in 1566. His son, Selim…
Necklace made of teeth WROCŁAW, POLAND—A second Neolithic burial was discovered in a Roman-era cemetery in southwestern Poland, according to a Live Science report. The man had been buried with two human heads, amber beads, a flint blade, a necklace made of 42 animal teeth, and a battle ax made of serpentinite, a greenish rock.…
Paul Greengrass' new film stars Andrew Garfield as a fictionalized, unnamed farmer who leads a rebellion against unfair taxes and the system of serfdom
Plenty of people remain spooked by autonomous vehicles, or AVs. Some experts and policymakers have cautioned that AVs won’t necessarily make roads safer. When it comes to partial or full autonomy, the picture isn’t entirely clear, in part because there aren’t enough self-driving cars to make meaningful apples-to-apples comparisons.Yet mounting research suggests that self-driving cars…
I’m sitting in a Rivian R1S SUV as it drives itself down the leafy streets of Palo Alto, Calif., through areas crowded with touchstones of tech history. We cruise near the landmark HP Garage, the one-car workshop where Hewlett-Packard, and, arguably, Silicon Valley, was founded in 1939. I skirt Stanford University, where a team led…
Scientists have identified a giant new dinosaur from Brazil that reached about 20 meters long and lived 120 million years ago. Its surprising evolutionary ties to a Spanish dinosaur suggest its ancestors crossed ancient land connections between Europe, Africa, and South America.
PARIS, FRANCE—IFL Science reports that Jérôme Isle de Beauchaine of France’s National Natural History Museum and his colleagues analyzed 30,000-year-old teeth discovered in southwestern France in the mid-twentieth century. It had been previously suggested that these teeth from Les Rois Cave belonged to a Neanderthal child butchered by Paleolithic modern humans, who then wore the…
