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 MoreAncient remains from Vietnam suggest diseases like yaws may have been passed from mother to child thousands of years ago, a form of transmission often assumed to indicate syphilis. The discovery could overturn how scientists interpret ancient infections and complicate the long-running mystery of syphilis’s origins.
Scientists probing life’s deepest origins have uncovered evidence that the first free-living cells may have emerged not once, but twice. The findings suggest a striking possibility: life may share one ancient genetic code, yet have undergone two separate transitions into free-living existence.
Researchers can now recover DNA from centuries-old parchment without damaging the manuscripts, turning historic documents into unexpected genetic time capsules. The hidden clues could reveal ancient trade routes, livestock history, manuscript origins, and details of everyday life stretching back more than a thousand years.
A forgotten fragment of a lost papal letter is offering a surprising new explanation for the Norman Conquest. England may have backed the wrong pope during a bitter religious power struggle, giving Pope Alexander II a political reason to support William the Conqueror’s invasion. The discovery suggests Harold’s downfall in 1066 was shaped by intrigue…
Burial, Kom El-Khelgan necropolis, Egypt DAKAHLIYA, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that a necropolis containing burials dating from the Predynastic period through the Greco-Roman era has been found at the site of Kom El-Khelgan in the eastern Nile Delta. Hisham El-Leithy of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) said that the range of the burials documents changes…
LIMA, PERU—According to a report in The Art Newspaper, traces of a sixteenth-century hospital and church have been found in Lima’s historic district, at the sanctuary of Santa Rosa de Lima, a Roman Catholic saint who lived next door to the structure when she died in 1617. “While performing maintenance on one of the exterior…
Coins found in a grave in Aspendos, Turkey ANTALYA, TURKEY—According to a Yeni Şafak report, a 2,400-year-old grave lined with stones has been unearthed in the eastern necropolis at the site of Aspendos, a Pamphylian city on Turkey’s southern coast. The tomb contained locally minted coins bearing images of wrestlers. Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, Turkey’s Culture…
In a tranquil Boston suburb, on the far edge of a horse farm, where pasture gives way to woods, a crane lowers an enormous electrode into a borehole. The electrode, a half-meter-long cylinder with copper-tipped arms to ensure good contact with the borehole walls, descends—deeper, deeper—through layers of spongy sandstone to the hard, marbled roots…
In collaboration with the Kingdom of Bhutan government, IEEE recently introduced its Engineering Education, Research, and Innovation Summit.Held on 9 and 10 June in Paro, in the eastern Himalayas, the event was designed to help Bhutan navigate its digital transformation by focusing on the critical intersection of digital transformation, engineering education, and sustainable development.The summit…
SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA—Phys.org reports that two beads made from giant rock scallops have been unearthed at the Turkey Flats and Lichtenstein sites, both located far from the Santa Barbara Channel where giant rock scallops usually live. The creatures live below the tide line, making them difficult to reach, and have thick, hard shells, making…
