Traditional basket makers boast of practicing one of the oldest known trades. What they probably don't know is how right they are. 9,500 years ago, hunter-gatherers collected esparto grass and braided it to create small…
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A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts landed this Wednesday in Kazakhstan after a mission of more than a year on the International Space Station (ISS), as announced by the Russian agency Roscosmos. «Today, at 2:17 p.m. Moscow time...
Although most physicists suspected it, no one had seen it until now. Antimatter responds to gravity in the same way that matter does. Which means that if we drop antimatter, it will fall downward, exactly ig...
NASA astromaterials experts have found "dark dust and sand-sized particles" when opening the 'treasure chest' brought back from the asteroid Bennu by the Osiris-Rex mission. By lifting the lid of the return capsule container…
What are known as fairy circles are circular patterns that appear naturally in arid areas. They are circles of bare soil surrounded by rings of vegetation, which until now had only been described in the desert regions of…
Some uses of artificial intelligence amaze us and others scare us, but this one could forever change how we understand life in the universe. A team of researchers led by the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington…
Virgin Galactic's commercial flight took off into space on September 8, 2023 with two company pilots on board, an instructor, three private passengers and fossils of ancient prehuman relatives from South Africa. Billionaire Timothy…
About 250 million years ago, long before the first hominids walked the Earth, all the continents formed a single enormous supercontinent, Pangea, surrounded by an extensive global ocean, Panthalassa. The breakup of Pangea led…
In 1217, exactly 806 years ago, a German monk raised his eyes to the sky and noticed a normally faint star that shone with unusual intensity. The star continued to burn in this way for several days and Abbott Burchard, who by...
We don't write the same as we speak. Through sound language we take care of many details and adapt intonation to repeat key ideas, avoid misunderstandings, confusion or double meanings, or to do just the opposite. And the human voice is...