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Credit: Alison Crowther Indiana Jones and Lara Croft have a lot to answer for. Public perceptions of archaeology are often thoroughly outdated, and these characterisations do little to help. Yet archaeology as practiced…

Credit: N. Currier, New York Spiritualist mediums might be more prone to immersive mental activities and unusual auditory experiences early in life, according to new research. This might explain why some people and not others…

September 1632 document likely shows the order for the last batch of Japanese wine in the Edo periodCredit: Professor Tsuguharu Inaba Researchers from Kumamoto University (Japan) have found an Edo period document that clearly indicates the…

Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute The sun is the only star in our system. But many of the points of light in our night sky are not as lonely. By some estimates, more than three-quarters of all stars exist as binaries -- with one…

The School of Architecture's grant-giving worldwide programme will make records freely available onlineCredit: Ronald G. Knapp, 2019. The School of Architecture at Oxford Brookes Univ ersity has started a £5 million grant-giving…

Credit: Library of Virginia On the road to connecting the United States, government officials displaced hundreds of thousands of Americans. The interstate highway system launched in the 1950s as the most ambitious public works…

Researchers identify previously unknown drought period from historical sourcesCredit: ilo Arnhold, TROPOS Leipzig. The transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age was apparently accompanied by severe droughts between…

Soil analyses help University of Oregon-led team unlock how pre-Columbian peoples benefited from Amazonian dark earth EUGENE, Ore. -- Jan. 4, 2021 -- Phosphorous, calcium and charcoal in spotty patches of fertile soil in the Amazon…

An interactive educational game 'Flight Across the Atlantic' featuring the legendary flight of Lithuanian pilots was announced as one of the winners in the global digital innovation competition World Summit Awards (WSA)Credit: KTU …

Credit: Kristen Grace/Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The history of the Caribbean's original islanders comes into sharper focus in a new Nature study that combines decades of archaeological work with advancements in genetic…

A shift starting in the late 1960s has targeted poor families with unnecessary investigations and child removals at the expense of services. Black children are removed from their families at much greater rates than any other race or…

The British Arts and Humanities Research Council and the German Research Foundation are funding the research project 'Spaces of Translation: European Magazine Cultures' run jointly by Nottingham Trent University and Mainz UniversityCredit:…

Credit: Courtesy of the Public Domain Review https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/londons-dreadful-visitation-bills-of-mortality Researchers from McMaster University have studied and analyzed thousands of weekly records…

Analyses of the materials in the scrolls helps put the object into an historical context and guides conservators in future restoration effortsCredit: The authors A picture may be worth a thousand words, but capturing…

Researchers found that early doctors and scholars who studied ancient plagues have shaped our fears and expectations of pandemics today Researchers at the University of Maryland's National-Socio Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) and…

Credit: University of Ottawa The University of Ottawa has earned a total of 10 Canada Research Chairs (CRCs) covering a broad scope of subjects, from the exploration of disruptive impacts of stress on higher brain functions to the need…

Jewish emigrants took a plaster mask prepared upon Frank Wedekind's death with them into exile in New ZealandCredit: photo/©: Editions- und Forschungsstelle Frank Wedekind More than 100 years after the author's death, a professor of…

Credit: Frédérique Vincent, ethnographic conservator Ancient Egyptian mummies have many tales to tell, but unlocking their secrets without destroying delicate remains is challenging. Now, researchers reporting in ACS' Analytical…

A highly rigorous, yet original and entertaining book exploring the connection between food and scienceCredit: World Scientific Why do scientists often use images and metaphors drawn from gastronomy? Why has science forcefully…

How can we make patent-free and improved equivalents to existing medicines? Is "on-demand" vaccine development the only feasible option to combat unpredictable infections, such as those causing viral pandemics? What is the key to…