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If you blow across the top of an empty bottle you’ll hear a clear, steady note. Now, engineers have used that same concept to power tiny…

The Crown of Kerch was discovered in a high-status woman’s grave in Crimea more than a century ago.(Image credit: Mirko Kuzmanovic/Alamy)QUICK FACTSName: Crown of KerchWhat it…

Photovoltaic technology, most commonly seen as the bulky solar panels used on solar farms, is expected to become a dominant energy source by 2050. But these…

In July, a government agency tasked with protecting our cultural heritage abdicated its responsibility, voting to further industry’s pursuit of profit over protecting sites of cultural…

NGC 6723 is a globular cluster, an ancient inhabitant of the Milky Way galaxy. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Sarajedini, G. Piotto)Quick factsWhat it is:…

Every second of every day, Earth is bombarded by particles from outer space. Some of these particles are obstructed by our planet’s atmosphere but can spray…

Archaeologists in Russia have unearthed a medieval hoard of 2,600 silver coins, including more than 350 coins of a type never seen before. The hoard may…

Earth’s temperatures are steadily rising, with the past decade experiencing all 10 of the warmest years on record. As heat waves become more frequent and intense,…

A new artificial intelligence (AI) model used a novel approach to AI cognition to dramatically reduce the cost of requests, suggesting that nonverbal reasoning may be…

There’s a commonly cited idea that water in a drain swirls in opposite directions in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. But is there any truth to…