RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA—KOTATV.com reports that archaeologists are excavating an area at Old Fort Meade known as “Soap Suds Row,” where hired laundresses cleaned soldiers’ uniforms. The fort was occupied from 1878 to 1944. “Of course, you can imagine a cavalry post and the type of laundry that they were …

Archaeologists have focused on the analysis of preserved lipids from 5,600-5,300-year-old vessels recovered from a group of artificial/semi-artificial islands known as ‘crannogs’ in the Outer Hebrides. An ‘Unstan’ type bowl recovered from the lake bed at Loch Arnish. Image credit: Chris Murray. “The consumption of domesticated plants and animals first …

In a new study, researchers used the W.M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea to capture the most precise and complete image ever captured of the region where Orion gets drenched with ultraviolet (UV) radiation from massive young stars. There is an irradiated neutral zone within the Orion Bar within the Orion …

Per leggere questo articolo occorrono 3 minuti Le drakospita, letteralmente “case dei draghi”, sono tra i monumenti più inusuali della Grecia: la maggior parte di questi edifici, realizzati in pietra a secco, sono sparsi nelle montagne a sud dell’Isola di Eubea. Per le dimensioni monumentali dei loro blocchi e per …

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KRAKÓW, POLAND—Science in Poland reports that weapons, bone needles, a fragment of a stone lamp, and hundreds of animal bones have been uncovered in the remains of a large fire in Hučivá Cave, which is located in Slovakia’s Belianske Tatras, by a team of Polish and Slovak researchers. Paweł Valde-Nowak …

ZANZIBAR, TANZANIA—The National reports that traces of an eleventh-century settlement have been found in the courtyard of the Old Fort at Stone Town, which was thought to have been first established as a hub for Indian Ocean trade networks on the East African coast by Portuguese explorers and the Sultanate …

Now that the James Webb Sac Telescope has begun working its magic, people around the world eagerly await new research, new images, and a new view of the cosmos. The James Webb Space Telescope is the most sophisticated telescope we’ve built to date, and it has already changed the way …

The Milky Way is our home galaxy and the only known place in the universe –so far– where life exists. There are approximately 100 billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy and hundreds of billions of estimated planets. Many of them could even support life as we know it. To …

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