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Herculaneum papyrus scroll in the process of being scanned NAPLES, ITALY—Scientists have fully “unwrapped” an entire carbonized papyrus scroll preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, CNN reports. Known as PHerc. 1667, the scroll is one of a library of texts found in the eighteenth century at a villa in the ancient…
The Northwest Earth and Space Science Pathways (NESSP) project recently concluded its 2025–2026 ROADS (Rover Observation And Discoveries in Space) from Earth to Venus National Challenge, a NASA Science Activation program student challenge that engaged more than 500 students on 120 teams from eight states in authentic science and engineering experiences inspired by Venus exploration….
Sarah Al-Ahmed: Around what time should we expect these pictures to start flowing in? Andrew Jones: June 7 was what we expected to be the rendezvous with Kamo’oalewa. The China National Space Administration hasn’t officially confirmed that this rendezvous maneuver has taken place, but AMSAT-DL, which is a nonprofit, used their telescopes in Bochum in…
Two of Mount Etna’s most powerful eruptions took dramatically different paths beneath the volcano, revealing that its underground plumbing can change over time, according to a new study. The findings suggest that even a single volcano may erupt through entirely different mechanisms. Although volcanoes often appear unchanged on the surface, the movement of magma deep…
For centuries, parchment manuscripts have preserved far more than the words written on their pages. Researchers have now uncovered a hidden layer of biological information locked inside these historic documents, opening a new avenue for studying the past without compromising the artifacts themselves. Historic parchments have long fascinated historians for the stories recorded in their…
Pegasus XL set to air launch Swift Boost Mission to save NASA space telescope – NASASpaceFlight.com We use cookies to ensure that we…
America’s 250th Anniversary A Smithsonian magazine special report The document, printed in a gothic typeface, was translated in Philadelphia. One of two surviving copies is going on display in Berlin ahead of America’s 250th birthday Christian Thorsberg | Daily Correspondent June 29, 2026 6:19 p.m. A first printing of the Declaration of Independence of the…
The headwaters of the Fermi Paradox channel directly through Michael Hart and Frank Tipler, and it’s a testament to the power of their arguments that this remains true today. It was Hart who in “An Explanation for the Absence of Extraterrestrials on Earth” (published in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1975)…
The SKA-low antennas look like trees, with horizontal branches of different lengths, called dipoles. Each one absorbs radio waves; the bigger the dipole, the longer the wavelength it absorbs.SKA-Low Astronomers have been underestimating the brightness of the low-frequency radio sky. Precision measurements by Australian and Italian radio astronomers reveal that the faint-sky background at low…
The Wallacean Islands were a popular place for our ancient ancestors. And as it turns out, our ancient ancestors reached some of these islands, which extend between Asia and Australia, remarkably early on. According to a new paper published in Nature, a stone tool discovery suggests that the hominins appeared on the Wallacean island of…