Research
Not just a madman: Yale study reveals Caligula's medical expertise
Study suggests Caligula's medical knowledge influenced his actions as emperor.
X-Ray bombshell: Vienna’s ‘Spear of Longinus’ secrets revealed
Was Sodom destroyed by a comet? Journal pulls controversial study
Study: Body image on Shroud of Turin best explained by a burst of radiation
DNA study: Modern Jews and Arabs retain more than half their ancestry from Bronze Age ‘Canaanites’
Genome-wide analysis of 93 skeletons from Israel, Jordan and Lebanon traces an unbroken genetic thread across three millennia.
'Ash-Winged Dawn Goddess': Oldest North American pterosaur fossil found
Jaw, wing bone, and tooth of Eotephradactylus mcintireae (209.2 Ma) reveal a floodplain ecosystem with fish, giant amphibians, and early turtles before the end-Triassic mass extinction.
AI cracks Hammurabi’s ancient script with near-perfect accuracy
Computers now read cuneiform tablets almost flawlessly.
Where did date palms come from? Earliest secure evidence points to the Gulf, c. 5000 BCE
‘DateBack’ logs 154 archaeobotanical records and tracks the moment cultivation overtook mere consumption across West and South Asia.
Study finds: No safe amount for consumption of processed meat
University of Washington researchers who reviewed more than seventy studies wrote that 'there is not a safe amount of processed meat consumption' for type 2 diabetes or colorectal cancer.
London dentist claims hidden triangle unlocks da Vinci's Vitruvian Man code
A study says a triangle between the Vitruvian Man’s feet reveals a 1.64 ratio, also found in Bonwill’s jaw model and natural crystal structures. Published in the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts.
Cruise ship norovirus outbreaks hit 12 by mid-May, nearly matching all of 2024’s total cases
The CDC records an outbreak when at least three percent of passengers and crew show symptoms, its vessel sanitation program reports.
Sonar survey confirms mastodon carving at 9,000-year-old Lake Michigan’s ‘Underwater Stonehenge’
High-resolution imaging shows a human-made mile-long boulder array 12 m under Grand Traverse Bay, predating Stonehenge by 4,000 years.
AI identifies 20 key points per fresco piece, boosting mural restoration accuracy by 86%
Software rebuilds damaged wall-paintings from piles of shards in minutes instead of months.
Physics-guided AI ‘WisePanda’ snaps China’s shattered bamboo slips back together in minutes
WisePanda, unveiled in May 2025, uses physics and AI to help conservators match bamboo slip fragments 20× faster than manual methods, combining a simulator with a TripletNet ranking network.
From Alaska to Norway: Orcas offer prey to humans worldwide
Orcas may share food with humans to build relationships, scientists suggest.
