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Closer to the Theory of Everything: A new theory unifies the fundamental forces and changes our understanding of the universe
The biggest challenge in theoretical physics for more than a century has been to develop a unified theory that combines ...
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The Mystery of the Parthenon’s Interior Lighting System in Antiquity Revealed
The Parthenon temple on the Acropolis of Athens housed a colossal statue made of gold and ivory, carved by the famous ...
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Secret Room with Tubes Revealing Ritual Use of Hallucinogens to Govern More than 2000 Years Ago Found in Peru
Two thousand years before the Inca Empire extended its dominion over the Andes, a much less known yet culturally influential ...
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How Robert Guiscard Used an Impostor Monk to Try to Conquer the Byzantine Empire with a Norman Army
In 1081, while the Byzantine Empire was mired in a succession crisis, Robert Guiscard, Norman Duke of Apulia-Calabria, sought ...
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The Strange Iron Keys from the Roman Era Found in the Judean Desert
Three elbow keys from the Cave of the Letters assemblage discovered by the Yadin expedition Collection of the Israel Antiquities Authority Credit: John Williams / Israel Museum Jerusalem In the 1960s, ...
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All but one of Andromeda’s 37 satellite galaxies point toward the Milky Way—something so strange it challenges current cosmology
A recent study published in Nature Astronomy has revealed that the dwarf galaxies orbiting around Andromeda, our neighboring galaxy, are distributed in such an uneven way that it calls into question ...
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Why Would All Lightsabers on Earth Be Blue? Can We Really Freeze People in Carbonite? The Science Behind Star Wars
Dr. Alex Baker on 'The Chemistry of Star Wars' at the Royal Institution in 2024. Credit: Royal Institution Since its premiere in 1977, Star Wars has captivated generations with its mix of adventure, ...
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Wamba, the Elder Who Didn’t Want to Be King of the Visigoths
The Chapel of Corpus Christi in the Toledo Cathedral is also known as the Mozarabic Chapel because Cardinal Cisneros decreed in 1504 that it be used to celebrate worship according to the eponymous ...
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Scientists Solve the Mystery of Bolivia’s “Zombie” Volcano Uturuncu, Geologically Dead but Showing Signs of Activity
An international team of scientists from China, the United Kingdom, and the United States has managed to decipher the internal processes of the Uturuncu volcano in Bolivia, known as the zombie volcano ...
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A119, the United States Project to Detonate a Nuclear Bomb on the Moon, in Which Carl Sagan Participated
On October 4, 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite in history, into orbit. That program would continue the following month with Sputnik II, which also carried the first ...
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Enigmatic Bronze Discs with Lion Heads Found in a Roman Tomb Baffle Archaeologists
Three of the lion-head discs retrieved from Tomb T6. Credit: A. Peretz A team of archaeologists made a singular discovery at the ancient site of Khirbat Ibreika, in southern Israel: four bronze discs ...
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Diotima of Mantinea, the Priestess Who Taught Socrates the Philosophy of Love
In his dialogues, Plato mentions an enigmatic figure who stands out both for her wisdom and her gender: a woman named Diotima of Mantinea. She was a priestess who instructed none other than Socrates ...