One of history’s most mysterious texts could be a type of encrypted message created in the 1400s, a new study suggests.
The Voynich manuscript…
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Scientists may have extracted Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA from Renaissance artwork for first time
Scientists have recovered tiny DNA traces left on Renaissance artefacts, at least some of which they suspect belong to visionary Italian…
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Evolution’s Clock Might Tick at Different Speeds : ScienceAlert
The oldest fossilised remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that are 538 million years old.
The very oldest of these are simple fossilised marks (called Treptichnus) made by something worm-like with a head and a tail. A host of other…
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‘Remarkable’ hoard of Iron Age objects unearthed during routine excavation in Norfolk
A near-complete battle trumpet is among a hoard of Iron Age objects discovered in Norfolk.
The musical instrument, called a carnyx, was among…
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Want to speed brain research? It’s all in how you look at it. — Harvard Gazette
To get a better look at brains, Harvard researchers are making microscopes work more like human eyes.
Until recently, the quest to build high-resolution maps of brains — otherwise known as “connectomes” — was stymied by the slow pace and cost of powerful electron microscopes capable…
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Tropical Spiders Make Fearsome ‘Puppets’ of Themselves For Protection : ScienceAlert
Some spiders build delicate little nets, others colossal web megacities, and now some in Peru and the Philippines have been found sculpting giant doppelgängers out of silk, prey carcasses, and debris.
This remarkable behavior has just been formally documented for the first time, based on a…
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Jellyfish Snooze Like We Do, And It Could Explain The Origins of Sleep : ScienceAlert
Even a boneless, gelatinous sack lacking a dedicated anus and brain needs its beauty sleep, a new study by researchers from Bar-Ilan University in Israel finds.
Jellyfish sleep a third of every day away, just like we do, despite their outlandishly different physiology.
This suggests the origin…
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The ‘blue zones’ that could hold the secret to long life
The world’s “blue zones”, which are home to an unusually high number of centenarians, keep changing every few years, according to a new…
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One of the world’s rarest whale species is finally having babies – but needs more
One of the world’s rarest whale species is experiencing a welcome increase in new births this year, though experts warn that many more are…
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