Science
9 Biggest Myths About Radiocarbon Dating’s Fish Problem Explained
A quiet flaw called the reservoir effect has been skewing radiocarbon dates by centuries wherever people ate fish. These nine myths reveal why carbon dating is far less straightforward than most people…
400-Year-Old Shipwreck Lock Sat Sealed for Decades — CT Scans Cracked It
When a corroded padlock was pulled from a Welsh beach — lost since the Elizabethan merchant vessel Ann Francis sank…
Before Construction Starts, Archaeologists Race to Save What Lies Below
Federal law has quietly stopped construction clocks since 1966 whenever archaeology is at stake. A Texas State University archaeologist walks…
AI Is Now Mapping the Two Forgotten Empires That Ruled the Andes Before the Inca
A Brown University-led AI archaeology project is using the GeoPACHA-AI platform to map the Wari and Tiwanaku empires — two…
Paleontologists Unearth 4 Dinosaur Species Near Moab — One May Be New to Science
At a newly discovered site in southeastern Utah's Morrison Formation, paleontologists have identified fossils from four distinct dinosaur species —…
Utah Geologists Excavate What May Be North America’s Oldest Cretaceous Bonebed
The Utah Geological Survey has begun excavating a dinosaur bonebed dating back 138 to 141 million years on a Utah…
D-Day Was Set for June 5 — One Forecaster’s 24-Hour Hunch Moved It to June 6
The date of D-Day was originally June 5, 1944, but a deteriorating Channel storm forced a postponement — and the…
Alexander’s Body Didn’t Decompose for 6 Days — He May Have Been Alive
Ancient sources record that Alexander the Great's body did not decompose for six days after his presumed death in 323…
Newton Wrote a Million Words on Alchemy — More Than All His Physics
Isaac Newton left over a million words of alchemical manuscripts — dwarfing his physics writings. The key figures of the…
Victorian Doctors Prescribed Heroin for Coughs and Cocaine for Toothaches
In the late Victorian era, Bayer marketed heroin as a safe cough remedy and dentists routinely prescribed cocaine for toothaches…