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The challenge of finding lost things and resolving imperative puzzles is a driving force in the world of science.
Such breakthroughs rarely occur in the manner of derming-do of the films “Indiana Jones” which inspired me to seek lost cities in my back and hated childhood.
On the contrary, some of the revolutionary discoveries that take off the strata of history take place in laboratories and on computer screens.
Artificial intelligence even looks at the most impenetrable artifacts: old and charred scrolls which are too delicate to be deployed.
The scholars deciphered some of the first words of a burnt and buried Herculanum roll in 79 AD during the eruption of Vesuvius.
One of the first words, written in ancient Greek, was translated as “disgust”. It appears twice in a few columns of text.
The artifact is the fifth parchment of Herculanum intact to be practically unrolled using AI and analyzes in the challenge of Vesuvius. The competition attracted researchers to decode the richness of information on ancient Rome and Greece contained in the papyrus.
The chemical composition not yet unknown of ink has made this parchment particular easier to read on X -rays, but scientists think that it can contain a particular ingredient.
If the asteroid Bennu should collide with the earth, which has one 1 in 2,700 chances of being around 157 years old, the impact trigger a world winterAccording to a new study.
The event, with reduced sunlight, drop in temperatures and less precipitation, could last for years and lead to food insecurity.
And a recently detected asteroid, called 2024 YR4, has a 2.2% chance of hitting our planet In 2032. But astronomers are not quickly underlined that the chances of one or the other strike of asteroids are slim.
Meanwhile, the Elon Musk’s Cherry Red sports car, launched in the space in 2018 on the inaugural flight of a heavy arugula Spacex Falcon, was Recently confused with an asteroid – point to a more important problem to try to follow the objects close to the earth in space.
Archaeologists have drawn the house of the last Anglo-Saxon king of England which appears in the medieval tapestry of Bayeux.
The discovery gives an overview of the period almost 1,000 years ago which served as a key turning point in British history.
The enigmatic work extends over hundreds of feet and represents William, Duke of Normandy, and his army killing Harold Godwinson, or Harold II, during the battle of Hastings in 1066.
The team was able to find the Harold II “lost” palaceShowed twice in complex embroidery, using a radar penetrating on the ground to take a look at another large residence in Bosham, England.
The distant side of the moon, which is definitively facing the earth, is home to many wonders – including a massive crater near the lunar southern pole with deep grooves that distance it.
Now astronomers think they know what has happened. A comet or asteroid probably struck the moon 3.8 billion years ago, creating a colossal impact basin. The debris of the collision then cut Two picturesque valleys of the Grand Canyon In about 10 minutes.
In addition, China plans to send a Robot flying to search for water On the other side of the moon next year as part of the Chang’e-7 mission, promoting the country’s plans to land astronauts on the lunar surface over the next five years.
Darwin’s frog is a small species disappearing at the risk of disappearing from the planet. But 11 male frogs brought hope to environmentalists after “giving birth” to 33 frogs at the London zoo.
Male Darwin frogs actually carry tadpole inside their vocal bags like an act of protection while the larvae transform into frogs. Then the Frog dads spit the frogs.
Ecologists transported male frogs of more than 7,000 miles (11,000 kilometers) from their home remote off the coast of Chile to protect the species from a deadly fungus that affects amphibians around the world.
In other news of animals, scientists say they are amazed Unexpected arrival of a baby’s swequist of baby At the Louisiana Aquarium Shreveport because no male sharks have visited the reservoir for years.
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– An analysis of a fossilized skull of $ 68 million in Antarctica revealed the oldest known modern bird, which had a toothless beak And was roughly the size of a Collard.
– a third of the world’s population, including 80% of North Americans, cannot see the Milky Way Due to the light pollution of cities. But there is a growing movement to bring back a dark sky.
– Some great apes are able to recognize when a human partner does not know something, and they try to help communicate this information in a Very human trait called “theory of the mind”.
– scientists were the pioneers of a new approach to understand the The oldest problem not resolved in physics: The structure of turbulence, a phenomenon seen in moving water and clouds, which could improve the design of aircraft.
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