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…
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MAZARA DEL VALLO, SICILY—According to a report in The Guardian, remnants of a Roman vessel that had been carrying some 500 amphoras when it sank 2,100 years ago were found by fishers about three miles off the coast of Sicily. An investigation conducted by Italy’s Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage revealed that…
Votive deposit in the Sanctuary of Apollo, Gortyna, Crete GORTYNA, CRETE—La Brújula Verde reports that researchers from the Italian School of Archaeology at Athens and the University of Padua recovered the bones of more than 450 mice (Mus musculus) from the sediments of a votive deposit inside a structure dated to the seventh century B.C.…
Dogs have been shaping—and being shaped by—humans for about 15,000 years, evolving from early partners of hunter-gatherers into an astonishing range of specialized companions. Across the globe, they adapted alongside people to wildly different environments and needs, from powerful Arctic sled dogs and agile rainforest hunters to high-altitude dogs with genetic traits for surviving thin…
A 240-million-year-old reptile discovered in Brazil is revealing what evolution looked like just before the rise of dinosaurs and crocodiles. The small predator had unusually positioned legs that may have allowed it to move more efficiently than many earlier reptiles. Its close relatives were previously known mostly from other continents, suggesting these ancient animals spread…
Archival photo of a copy of the inscription from the ancient Anatolian city of Mylasa STRATONICEA, TURKEY—La Brújula Verde reports that fragments from a fifth-century a.d. inscription have provided new details about a late Roman–era tax scandal. Since the eighteenth century, archaeologists have known about sections of the legal document from copies that had once…
Inscribed seat plaque VILNIUS, LITHUANIA—Archaeologists have unearthed solemn artifacts, artworks, and parts of the main prayer hall of Vilnius’ Great Synagogue, Haaretz reports. The Renaissance-Baroque–style building was built in the seventeenth century and was the center of Jewish worship in the city for centuries, before being ransacked by the Nazis in 1941 and subsequently demolished…
Amphoras on the ancient shipwreck off Andros, Greece ANDROS, GREECE—According to a ProtoThema report, Greek authorities announced the discovery of an ancient shipwreck off the island of Andros. The site was originally brought to the attention of the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture by a private individual. While investigating the…
Nobody knows who dropped Speedy Weber's correspondence at a USO office in 2022. Researchers have finally tracked down two living relatives who remember him
Dinosaurs conquered the land at enormous sizes, but strangely, they almost never evolved into truly tiny animals. New research suggests that physiology alone can’t explain this missing miniature end of the dinosaur spectrum—and that early mammals may have been partly responsible. While dinosaurs kept mammals from becoming large, small mammals may have returned the favor…
The history of networking is full of tools that repurposed solutions to very different kinds of problems first. Wi-Fi’s origins trace back, in part, to a team of Australian radio astronomers trying to detect signals from evaporating black holes. But the data-processing tools they’d developed also proved capable at extracting clean messages from any chaotic,…
