(WJW) – Scientists in Spain have discovered the world’s oldest wine, a 2,000-year-old white wine that contains a man’s ashes. According to researchers at the University of Córdoba who published their discovery on Tuesday in the Journal of Archaeological Science, the wine was found inside a funeral urn in an ancient tomb in Carmona, a […]
Do you struggle to get a good night’s sleep? It may be making you slow and dumb, according to new research. That’s what a quintet of researchers in Mexico concluded in a new paper published in the journal Experimental Brain Research and highlighted by PsyPost. The scientists examined how sleep deprivation reduces people’s attention spans […]
Scientists discovered a 2000-year-old white wine inside an urn that also contained a man’s ashes in a Roman tomb in Spain Juan Manuel Roman/ Journal of Archaeological Science Worlds Oldest Wine discovered in an urn Researchers have discovered the world’s oldest wine in a Roman burial site in Spain. The drink contains a surprising ingredient […]
LISLE, Illinois (AP) — With their bulging red eyes and their alien-like mating sound, periodical cicadas can seem scary and weird enough. But some of them really are sex-crazed zombies on speed, hijacked by a super-sized fungus. West Virginia University mycology professor Matt Kasson, his 9-year-old son Oliver, and graduate student Angie Macias are tracking […]
Despite an ongoing outbreak of bird flu in dairy cows, the popularity of raw milk has only risen. Advocates claim raw milk has superior health benefits over pasteurized milk. There is little evidence to support these claims, however, and the risk of serious illness is much greater. Mississippi State University food scientists Juan Silva and […]
It was a shock when Michael Mosley, a doctor and well-known TV presenter in the UK, was found dead earlier this month after hiking in scorching temperatures on the Greek island of Symi. But it is now one of a series of tourist deaths and disappearances in Greece as the country endures a powerful, early […]
Fast radio bursts flash in the sky over Earth. | Credit: NRAO Outreach/T. Jarrett (IPAC/Caltech); B. Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are intense, short-lived blasts of radio waves hailing from beyond the Milky Way that can emit the same amount of energy in just thousandths of a second that the sun takes three days […]
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – At the center of the Milky Way galaxy resides a supermassive black hole four million times the mass of our sun called Sagittarius A* that some scientists have called a gentle giant because of its quiescence. But someday it could become a beast. Researchers said on Tuesday they have […]
Scientists have put “mini backpacks” on rare beetles found in temperate rainforest fragments to record their movements as part of a study that could help to support conservation efforts. Researchers from the University of Exeter have been working with the Woodland Trust to examine the blue ground beetle, an elusive animal that lives in the […]
Giraffes have the longest necks of any living animal but scientists can’t agree on why. Scientists largely agree that males drove the evolution of long necks to compete for mates. But a new study offers clues to the contrary, challenging the leading “necks for sex” theory. Giraffes didn’t always look like the elegant giants we recognize […]
“Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.” Scientists from North Carolina State University successfully “squeezed” infrared light to 10 percent of its wavelength while maintaining its frequency. This breakthrough was achieved using a thin membrane of strontium titanate and the phono polaritons it produced after using synchrotron […]
Scientists have observed a strange phenomenon in oceans worldwide: Fish are getting smaller, even in areas unaffected by overfishing. The exact reason is unknown, though researchers have a few theories. What’s happening? According to The Washington Post, an analysis published in the journal Science found that almost 75% of marine fish across the globe have […]