BERGAMO, ITALY—According to a CNN report, continuing glacier melt has revealed additional World War I artifacts in a cave near the peak of Mount Scorluzzo in northern Italy. Twenty Austrian soldiers took shelter in the cave, which is located near the strategic Stelvio Pass, and camouflaged it from aerial view. …

ONTARIO, CANADA—According to a statement released by the University of Waterloo, skeletal remains of a member of the 1845 Franklin Expedition have been identified through DNA analysis. Sir John Franklin and the 129 members of the expedition set out on the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to explore the Northwest …

While we are waiting for the Perseverance rover to begin its search for ancient microbial life on Mars, researchers here on Earth have recently suggested that NASA’s previous missions have already discovered evidence in the form of fungus. Here is everything you need to know. Is there fungus on Mars? …

Per leggere questo articolo occorrono circa 3 minuti Le prime civiltà a costruire edifici palaziali monumentali e centri urbani in Europa sono geneticamente più omogenee del previsto, secondo il primo studio del DNA elaborato per sequenziare interi genomi raccolti da alcuni siti archeologici intorno al Mar Egeo. Lo studio è …

Archaeologists have discovered the oldest human burial in Africa, dating back about 78 thousand years ago. The remains of a 2.5–3-year-old child were found in a shallow grave in Panga ya Saidi cave on the Kenyan coast. Scientists gave him the name Mtoto, which means a child in Swahili. The …

ISERNIA, ITALY—ArtNews reports that a marble head of the Roman emperor Augustus (r. 27 B.C.–A.D. 14) was unearthed in southern Italy’s region of Molise by a team of researchers led by archaeologist Francesca Giancola. The team members were excavating the walls of the town of Isernia, which are located on …

Since the middle of the last century, scientists have been trying to figure out whether we really live in a “multiverse”, but so far no clear evidence has been found. At least until last year when tabloids claimed that NASA researchers had detected strange signals in Antarctica that may be …

A recent scientific study has shown that the relief of the Martian Arcadia Planitia is very similar to ice flows under the ice shelves of Antarctica. If there really are glaciers under the layer of Martian dust, scientists will have a good reason to send the next Martian robotic mission …

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE—According to a statement released by Dartmouth College, evidence of parasitic infection has been found in a privy that belonged to an affluent, nineteenth-century rural household. The layers of waste in the stone-lined privy contained fine imported ceramics, exotic peanut and coffee remains, mineral water bottles, medicine bottles …

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, whose primary mission is to study the sun, detected something curious during its flyby near Venus last year. The probe recorded low-frequency radio emission, indicating that it passed through the upper layers of the planet’s atmosphere. 10 things you need to know about the radio emissions …