The stones that make up Stonehenge came from all over BritainHeritage Image Partnership Ltd /Alamy Stonehenge may have been built to symbolise a unification in Stone Age Britain. The idea could explain why so many of the stones making up...
When I was 17 I was nearly killed when a fight broke out after a high school football game and someone fired a gun. A stray bullet struck my throat, tearing through my trachea and damaging my carotid artery.This near-death...
The 2025 Under the Radar Symposium kicks off with an exciting and robust keynote event. Free and open to the public, this dynamic gathering brings together global arts leaders, cultural innovators, and a vibrant community of over 350 professionals to...
Ramesses III was one of Egypt’s great warrior pharaohs. A temple he built at Medinet Habu, near the Valley of the Kings, highlights why. On its walls, carvings tell the story of a coalition of fighters that swept across the...
Here are the questions. The answers can be found at the bottom of this page, but don’t scroll down until you’ve given them a good go. 1. Uncle Johannes has outdone himself this year, serving up an eight-course Christmas feast...
Colour, smell, taste and chemical constituents can all be used to distinguish whiskiesJane Barlow/PA Images/Alamy Artificial intelligence can tell Scotch whisky from American whiskey and identify its strongest constituent aromas more reliably than human experts – by using data rather...
Mathematicians attended Roger Apéry’s lecture at a French National Center for Scientific Research conference in June 1978 with a great deal of skepticism. The presentation was entitled “On the Irrationality of ζ(3),” which caused quite a stir among experts.The value...
In November 2022 Matthew Genge was peering through a scanning electron microscope at a millimeter-sized speck of the asteroid Ryugu when he noticed something was off. A minuscule yet unmistakable rod-shaped tendril of organic matter previously unseen clung to the...
December 19, 20243 min readMost Expensive Dinosaur Fossil Ever Could Reveal Stegosaurus SecretsThe huge Stegosaurus fossil Apex, bought at auction for $44.6 million, has debuted on loan at the American Museum of Natural HistoryBy Zane Wolf edited by Sarah Lewin...
TranscriptTEXT CARD: 2020Dartmouth College, N.H.Vassiki Chauhan: In September 2015, I arrived from the Boston Airport on the Dartmouth Coach that loops around the green.On supporting science journalismIf you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. By purchasing...
