Special techniques used to study ripples in the universe may have helped researchers solve an ancient mystery. According to a new paper in Horological Magazine. These techniques allowed the researchers to tell how many holes were in one of the broken rings of the Antikythera Mechanism, the ancient computer shown in Indiana Jones and the … Read more
Lithouva – earliest fossil grape from the Western Hemisphere, ~60 million years from Colombia. The upper figure shows fossils accompanied by CT reconstruction. The bottom shows the artist’s reconstruction. Credit: Fabiany Herrera, art by Pollyanna von Knorring. If you’ve ever eaten a raisin or enjoyed a glass of wine, you may partly have the extinction … Read more
Asteroid samples collected from Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission have revealed fascinating details about the early solar system and the history of water in space. These samples, the largest ever returned to Earth by an asteroid, are providing scientists with invaluable data on conditions and processes that existed billions of years ago. Significance of the … Read more