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 MoreLOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA—CBS News reports that the FBI has returned 48 artifacts to Egypt. The figurines, amulets, and tomb equipment were relinquished by a collector who questioned their provenance. A subsequent investigation conducted by the FBI’s Art Crime Team determined that the objects were likely exported from Egypt by an antiquities trafficker who is now…
TRUJILLO, PERU—According to an Andina report, the 1,500-year-old remains of a child estimated to have been about 18 months old at the time of death have been uncovered in a residential area at the site of Huacas de Moche, which is located in northern Peru. Carlos Rengifo of the Huacas de Moche Archaeological Project and…
For most of my career, my IEEE membership sat quietly in the background—a line on my résumé, a discount code for a conference registration, and access to the IEEE Xplore digital library, which I underutilized. I didn’t think much about the grade of membership available above that of the regular member. I assumed senior membership…
How do I touch youacross the ocean,across cold depthswhere light travels through glass.Not copper—fibers. Optical. Through liquid glass, through flickering lightthat carries you in fragments. Light broken into pulses. You say: it’s easier this way. What are we missing like this? You smile.Safe distance. I say: network. Signals slide beneath the sea, through cables thinner…
This article is brought to you by Emerson.I’ve spent much of my career as an engineer, including years in the semiconductor industry. And one lesson has stayed with me through every major technology shift: innovation always creates new complexity.In semiconductors, we have seen that repeatedly. Every generation has delivered breakthroughs in performance and capability, but…
The AI boom has disrupted the way engineers work, introducing new tools to learn, raising expectations for what teams can achieve in a workday, and making it harder to get hired in the first place. This makes it difficult to advise students on which specific coding languages or technical skills they should learn. So amidst…
BİLECİK, TURKEY—Hürriyet Daily News reports that 25 turtle figurines carved from limestone have been discovered in a cave in northwestern Turkey. Some of the figurines, which measure less than one foot long and eight inches wide, had been coated with clay. The figurines have been dated to between 14,500 and 11,200 years ago by a…
Lead seal of Irene Komnene SOFIA, BULGARIA—A Byzantine-era seal belonging to the empress Irene Komnene has been unearthed in Perperikon, the site of an ancient city in southern Bulgaria’s Rhodope Mountains, according to a Greek Reporter article. Archaeologist Nikolay Ovcharov said that Irene Komnene was married to John III Doukas Vatatzes, the emperor of Nicaea,…
Ground-penetrating radar image of the Neolithic enclosure in Chleby, Czech Republic CHLEBY, CZECH REPUBLIC—A monumental structure built some 6,500 years ago has been identified as one of the oldest ritual centers in central Europe, according to a La Brújula Verde report. Located in the central Czech Republic, the circular enclosure measures more than 750 feet…
In 1735, Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach commissioned a cottage called Merlin's Cave, which linked the German House of Hanover to both Britain’s ancient heritage and its future success
