Joni Mitchell famously lamented in her 1970 environmental anthem “Big Yellow Taxi” that “they paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” The Marine Discovery Center in New Smyrna Beach is trying to do just the opposite. The center’s project, dubbed “Promoting Paradise and Removing a Parking Lot,” aims to remove 13,000 square feet of […]
An eerie treasure has been uncovered underneath the floorboards at the Auschwitz concentration camp — 35 well-preserved handmade chess pieces. Renovators at Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum found the incomplete set in the prison’s first floor, hidden under a floorboard so as to avoid detection from the brutal Nazi guards who patrolled the cells. Elżbieta Cajzer, […]
Archaeologists have unearthed more than 30 ancient Egyptian tombs that cover an entire hill in Aswan, an ancient city on the Nile. The burials date to the Greco-Roman period and reveal clues about those who once lived in this vibrant trading port. The finds include the mummies of what are likely families buried together; coffins; […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. For thousands of years, one color rose above all others — and was worth more than its weight in gold, according to a fourth-century imperial edict. Tyrian purple was a highly prized pigment developed in the Bronze […]
A crew of Florida treasure hunters came upon a startling discovery in a 300-year-old shipwreck last month. And there may be more where it came from. Captain Grant Gitschlag and his mate, Corinne Lea, told Fox 35 Orlando that they’ve been investigating sunken shipwrecks for forgotten treasure for several years. But nothing prepared them for […]
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Rice is one of the most important grains in the food supply network. The humble cereal is an essential part of the diet of around half of the world’s population. However, it is labor intensive and a drain on resources to produce. Concerningly, too, given its importance, rice yields are at risk as an overheating […]
A group of Florida-based treasure hunters recently recovered hundreds of coins from a fleet of 300-year-old shipwrecks off the Atlantic coast this week. One of the divers called the find late last month “almost numbing.” “You don’t expect that,” boat captain Grant Gitschlag told FOX 35 on Friday. “You always hope for it, but you […]
At the height of the American war machine’s realization that China controls nearly all of its raw materials, two new developments in Europe now suggest that the West has a fighting chance to secure critical metals for the future: A major discovery in Norway, and a potentially game-changing acquisition in Greenland. In mid-June, Norwegian mining […]
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Ultrafine dark matter, millions of times lighter than electrons, could flow through the cosmos in waves. We might just have an easy way to check for tiny interactions between this dark matter and the ionosphere. If this idea is validated, it’s an inexpensive and low-lift way to confirm or rule out one theory. In the […]
What if the solution to removing harmful lead from our drinking water is sitting in the trash bins behind breweries? An exciting innovation from researchers at MIT and Georgia Tech proves that this long-overlooked resource could be a game-changer for communities, according to Interesting Engineering. The scientists created special capsules filled with waste yeast discarded […]