‘A kind of Rosetta Stone’: AI decodes 217-year-old secret letter ordered by Napoleon
An engineer has utilized AI to break a previously unsolved cipher used by Napoleon Bonaparte to send secret messages to his generals — enabling us
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‘It’s a portrait of their actual ancestor’: Facial reconstruction of Indigenous man who lived in Ecuador 3,000 years ago shared with his descendants
An international team has reconstructed the face of a man who lived in what’s now Ecuador more than 3,000 years ago and whose skull featured
Adversity shaped our evolution as a species. People raised in it may have underrecognized strengths because of it.
Meriah DeJoseph grew up below the poverty line, so she was intrigued in college when she started reading what researchers had to say about people
‘This is what happened with Claude and me’: AI’s failed attempt to crack the Riemann hypothesis led mathematician to a breakthrough
An artificial intelligence (AI) model’s failed attempt to crack one of math’s most notorious unsolved problems has helped a human mathematician make progress on a
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 Launches
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts
What Does the Fourth Dimension Actually Look Like?
We know all about how things exist in the three dimensions of length, width, and height. Physicists often talk about time as a fourth dimension
Your voice may reveal how fast you’re aging, new AI ‘speech clock’ suggests
A new AI tool that analyzes speech could give users a glimpse of how they are aging and whether they’re at risk of dementia, a
Physicists unveil the most accurate atomic clock ever — and it could literally redefine the second
Scientists have created the most accurate atomic clock ever made — and it could literally redefine the second. Researchers recently unveiled the record-breaking device, which
Watch the world’s smallest crocodiles snatch bats in their hidden underground lair — a behavior never seen before
The world’s smallest crocodiles use a sneak attack to hunt bats in hellish underground caves filled with poop, a new video reveals. The footage of
Here’s how brain-eating amoebas may infect people
Naegleria amoebas’ exploration skills and crawling behaviors could help explain how the brain-eating variety travel into human brains.
A video of a humpback whale and her dead calf reveals the animals’ bond
A female humpback whale may have spent days with her stillborn calf. This rare sighting may suggest that baleen whales experience grief.
CHIME telescope unlocks new way to study the universe’s baffling expansion
Scientists have a new tool for mapping the universe’s perplexing acceleration. A Canadian telescope designed to chart the distribution of hydrogen gas across the ancient
A new map points out U.S. rivers most worth protecting
Scientists graded every river and stream in the contiguous United States, flagging specific repairs each one needs to support aquatic life.
Star Trails
This long-duration image shows star trails above Earth and the blue lights of fishing boats and the yellow lights of Indonesian cities stretching below the