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A mysterious “horseman” found inside a lead-lined coffin beneath the ruin of the Notre Dame Cathedral has finally been identified as the French Renaissance poet Joachim…
Technologies such as brain-computer interfaces, artificial intelligence (AI), predictive texting and autocomplete are already transforming language as we know it.But how significant will that change be?…
When people “choke under pressure,” it’s often at times when success could result in a big payoff — maybe they’re an athlete at a championship match…
Sudden and rare warming events in Antarctica may have delayed the arrival of the ozone hole that appears above the frozen continent every year, scientists say.These…
Physicists at the world’s largest atom smasher have observed two quarks in a state of quantum entanglement for the first time.The observation, made at the Large…
In this adapted excerpt from “The Future of Language: How Technology, Politics and Utopianism are Transforming the Way We Communicate” (Bloomsbury, 2023), author Philip Seargeant examines…
NASA’s Perseverance rover has spotted a funky “zebra rock” on Mars’ Jezero crater that’s nothing like any rock seen on the Red Planet before.The rover captured…
If microscopic black holes born a fraction of a second after the Big Bang exist, as some researchers suspect, then at least one may fly through…
A strange type of ultraheavy star grows massive by feeding on the bloated, dying body of its companion, new research confirms.While astronomers have long suspected that…
QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Foxe Basin in Nunavut, Canada [68.79136545, -80.08562796]What’s in the photo? A patch of snow-covered sea ice in the shape of a Starfleet…