Friday, October 9, 2026

Stealth Signals Are Bypassing Iran’s Internet Blackout

On 8 January 2026, the Iranian government imposed a near-total communications shutdown. It was the country’s first full information blackout: For weeks, the internet was off across all provinces while services including the government-run intranet, VPNs, text messaging, mobile calls, and even landlines were severely throttled. It was an unprecedented lockdown that left more than…

This 31-foot “terror croc” ate dinosaurs. Now it’s back

A massive, bus-sized “terror croc” that once preyed on dinosaurs has been brought back to life in stunning detail with the first scientifically accurate full skeleton of Deinosuchus schwimmeri. Stretching over 30 feet long, this ancient apex predator ruled the southeastern U.S. more than 75 million years ago—and now visitors can see it up close…

Tombs Yield Clues to Neolithic Family Structure

CARDIFF, WALES—An international team of researchers has conducted a genetic study of human remains recovered from early Neolithic tombs in northern Scotland and confirmed that the families buried there were organized through the male line, according to a Live Science report. The DNA samples were taken from 22 individuals interred in five different tombs in…

Who Suffered During a Plague Outbreak?
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Who Suffered During a Plague Outbreak?

BASEL, SWITZERLAND—According to a statement released by Antiquity, analysis of skeletal remains recovered from a seventeenth-century hospital cemetery in Basel, Switzerland, suggests that young laborers were the people most likely to die during an outbreak of plague. As a trade center that drew people in from abroad, the city of Basel was vulnerable to the…

What It’s Like to Live With an Experimental Brain Implant

Scott Imbrie vividly remembers the first time he used a robotic arm to shake someone’s hand and felt the robotic limb as if it were his own. “I still get goosebumps when I think about that initial contact,” he says. “It’s just unexplainable.” The moment came courtesy of a brain implant: an array of electrodes…

OpenAI Engineer Helps Companies Attract Buyers and Boost Sales

Like many engineers, Sarang Gupta spent his childhood tinkering with everyday items around the house. From a young age he gravitated to projects that could make a difference in someone’s everyday life.When the family’s microwave plug broke, Gupta and his father figured out how to fix it. When a drawer handle started jiggling annoyingly, the…

Mammal ancestors laid eggs, and this 250-million-year-old fossil finally proves it

In the aftermath of Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event, one unlikely survivor rose to dominate a shattered world: Lystrosaurus. Now, a stunning fossil discovery—an ancient egg containing a curled-up embryo—has finally answered a decades-old mystery about whether mammal ancestors laid eggs. Using advanced imaging technology, scientists confirmed that these resilient creatures did reproduce this way,…

Stele Fragments from South Korea’s Wolseong Palace Reunited
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Stele Fragments from South Korea’s Wolseong Palace Reunited

Silla stele fragments GYEONGJU, SOUTH KOREA—Korea JoongAng Daily reports that an inscribed fragment of stone discovered in 1937 at the Wolseong Palace in southeastern South Korea—and another, larger fragment discovered in 2020—belong to the same stele. The smaller fragment, found in the western section of the palace, has been housed at the Gyeongju National Museum.…