Archaeologists excavate a lamassu at ancient Khursbad |

In a press announcement by the General Authority for Antiquities and Heritage, archaeologists have re-excavated an ancient lamassu at Kursbad, Iraq. A lamassu is an Assyrian protective deity normally depicted…

Pete Betts honored by climate diplomats

Betts was the EU’s chief negotiator when the Paris Agreement was signed. He has died a year after being diagnosed with cancer. Pete Betts, a veteran British climate negotiator and…

Apple Ready To Spend Billions To Catch AI Leaders: RPT

Apple is prepared to spend billions to catch the leaders in generative AI technology, according to Bloomberg Apple watcher Mark Gurman. In his Power On newsletter Sunday, Gurman wrote that…

Berkley Walker wants to revamp photosynthesis for a changing climate

Berkley Walker didn’t plan on becoming a scientist; he wanted to be an entrepreneur. And he got started early on that goal: In high school in Portland, Ore., he started…

Study unveils a cortico-amygdala neural substrate supporting fear extinction via endocannabinoids

Zooming into fear and endocannabinoids in the brain. Credit: Ozge Gunduz-Cinar and Biorender. Endogenous cannabinoids, or endocannabinoids for short, are lipid-based neurotransmitters known to support various physiological processes. Recent studies…

Microsecond Burst Hiding in Telescope Archives

An international team of researchers led by Dutch Ph.D. candidate Mark Snelders (ASTRON and University of Amsterdam) has sifted through telescope archives and discovered radio pulses from the distant universe…

Google Maps disables live traffic data in Israel, Gaza at Israeli military’s request

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Alphabet Inc.”s Google is disabling live traffic conditions in Israel and the Gaza Strip for its Maps and Waze apps at the request of the Israeli…

Itinerant magnetism and superconductivity in exotic 2D metals for next-generation quantum devices

Astronomers carry out largest ever cosmological computer simulation

The background image shows the present-day distribution of matter in a slice through the largest FLAMINGO simulation, which is a cubic volume of 2.8 Gpc (9.1 billion light years) on…

18th century cold bath found in Bath Assembly Rooms |

Archaeologists conducting excavations in the basement of the Bath Assembly Rooms have uncovered an 18th century cold bath. The Bath Assembly Rooms, located in Bath, England, were designed by John…