Science

Using archaeomagnetism encouraged by mud bricks bearing the stamps of the names of Mesopotamian kings, archaeologists have been able to disprove the claim that the monumental Ishtar Gate of Babylon was erected to celebrate the conquest of Jerusalem. The...

Travel in 2070 will be so much different than today, a recent report from Europe’s leading futurists and experts from the worlds of aerospace, innovation, and engineering says. Predictions have been made in easyJet 2070: The Future Travel Report about what...

In an unexpected discovery, scientists have unintentionally created the tiniest and tightest knot to date, earning a prestigious spot in the Guinness Book of World Records. This extraordinary microscopic knot is made up of only fifty-four atoms, forming a unique...

UK-based aerospace company Pulsar Fusion is working to build a rocket powered by nuclear fusion that could reach speeds of 500,000 mph which could cut the time to fly to Mars by half. Astronauts could reach the red planet in...

A portable desalination unit that can remove particles and salts to turn seawater into drinking water has recently been developed by MIT researchers. The suitcase-sized device, weighing less than ten kilograms, requires less power to operate than a cell phone...

  For the first time, scientists have recently obtained genetic material and analyzed genome sequences from the ancient Minoans and Mycenaeans, who lived three to five thousand years ago. The new analysis suggests that the Minoans and Mycenaeans shared a great...

A rhesus monkey, cloned for the first time, has made it to adulthood, living for over two years. This, as reported by Nature Communications, is the first successful cloning of its kind. Unlike the method used for Dolly the sheep...

A previously unknown underwater volcano eruption off Santorini, six times larger and 520,000 years older than the Minoan eruption, has been discovered by an international scientific team. A professor from the University of Athens was also on the team. The...

Medicine played a central role in Ancient Greek culture, as it did in history at large. The oath of Hippocrates is still taken by young medicine students internationally today. Ancient Greek medical practices date back to the very early Mycenean...

A recent extensive examination of how much carbon dioxide was in the air way back and how hot it was paints a worrisome picture of where our Earth's weather might be going. The new study looks at rock records from...

We all know that we need to do our part to save the Earth, but the hardest part is knowing where to start. Everyday, it seems like there's a new headline about how humans are destroying the planet. Under...

Geologists have recently discovered two alien minerals unknown to Earth in a meteorite in Somalia. A small, 2.5 ounce (70-gram) fragment of the fifteen thousand kilogram fallen comet known as El Ali revealed the alien ore. Scientists stumbled upon the...

Researchers have found a new type of antibiotic that seems capable of killing drug-resistant bacteria. The bacteria, which doesn't respond well to many medicines is one of three that has proven to be especially tough to handle. The newly discovered...

The first successful liver transplant from a living donor, specifically from a father to his daughter, took place in Greece this week. The operation took place at Athens’s Laiko Hospital, as announced by Deputy Health Minister Irene Agapidaki in a...

The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Greece were given special acknowledgment in a video titled "frying in zero gravity." The European Space Agency posted the video on its Facebook page. In the video, the Group Dynamics of Multiphase Systems team...