A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius.

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The equatorial regions of Mars are home to unexpectedly enormous layers of ice, and they may have been put there by dramatic ...

Progesterone, oestrogen and testosterone can be detected in skeletons over 1000 years old, offering a way to identify ...

Babies born too soon seem to have stronger connections in one of the major brain areas that supports language processing if ...

Are you terse and informal when speaking to an AI chatbot? If so, you might be getting worse answers than if you used more ...

Record-breaking ocean temperatures have caused widespread bleaching and death among warm-water corals, which could have ...

The strong nuclear force may abruptly loosen its grip on the fundamental particles that make up matter at a special “critical ...

Claims that one quantum computer is better than another rest on terms like quantum advantage or quantum supremacy, ...

Stars often fall into black holes, and now it seems the opposite can also occur, producing an extra long-lasting explosion as ...

For decades, forest, grasslands and other land ecosystems have collectively absorbed up to a third of the carbon dioxide we ...

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it ...