Following daring missions braving the elements and perilous location of the Qumran Caves in Israel, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered in 1952: archaeologists have discovered approximately eighty fragments of new text from the seminal work. These are the first new pieces to the ancient religious texts toread more
A new report from the United Nations panel that monitors the individual efforts of the 197 countries signed on to the Paris Climate Agreement says that the collective effort of the world’s nations to limit the rise of global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels are set toread more
A new breakthrough has been made in regards to the inner workings of the device known as the Antikythera mechanism. Combining recent 3D X-ray scans of the ancient computer with over a century’s worth of cumulative investigation, researchers are now confident that enough of the mechanism and its accompanying instructionsread more
Recent studies in theoretical physics have found that faster-than-light travel, through the manipulation of gravity—or bending the physical fabric of space-time—is not as impossible as was once thought. Although it would appear that we’re still quite a few quantum leaps away from being able to visit neighboring star systems inread more