A research team of archaeologists and historians at the University of Leicester has developed a groundbreaking method for identifying smokers from past centuries by examining… Read More »Researchers Uncover Widespread Smoking Habits in 18th Century England
For the first time, an imaging method has been used to investigate Iron Age bronze Iranian swords, revealing significant modern modifications that prove the weapons… Read More »Neutron Tomography Exposes Illicit Alterations to Iron Age Swords
The first successfully sequenced human genome from an individual who died in Pompeii, Italy, after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE is presented… Read More »First Complete Human Genome Sequenced from Pompeii Victim
In 79 CE, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius obliterated Pompeii, a small Roman town near modern-day Naples. The violent outburst left the town blanketed in… Read More »Ancient DNA Challenges Assumptions About Pompeii’s Inhabitants
In 2017, scientists discovered Chromosphaera perkinsii, a single-celled protist species found in marine sediments near Hawaii. This ancient organism dates back more than a billion… Read More »Ancient Organism Challenges the Origins of Multicellularity
An international team of astronomers, using the advanced capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has made… Read More »Astronomers Uncover a Massive, Rotating Galaxy in the Early Universe
Researchers from the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Medicine have uncovered why some patients with wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD) don’t experience vision… Read More »Researchers Uncover a New Target for Wet AMD Treatment
A research team at Lund University in Sweden has identified a specific type of cell, known as foam cells, that plays a significant role in… Read More »Researchers Identify Foam Cells as Key Drivers of Glioblastoma
An international team led by researchers from Goethe University Frankfurt has discovered an intracellular sensor that monitors and controls the quality of MHC-I (Major Histocompatibility… Read More »New Sensor Boosts Immune Response
When considering the potential for life on exoplanets, we often start with the concept of a “habitable zone”—the area around a star where conditions might… Read More »The Impact of Stellar Neighborhoods on Planetary Habitability