When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object's owner authorized ...

For generations, scientists believed that the West Coast’s two great earthquake engines — the Cascadia subduction zone and ...

Despite intensive research over many decades on one of the most famous kingdoms of the ancient world, scientists still know little about the diseases which plagued the people of Mesopotamia. An ...

GD is working with Epirus on the TRX Leonidas system, which uses microwaves to blast swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles. In a demonstration that would surely make their namesakes proud, a ...

A team of Italian and Iraqi archaeologists has unearthed hundreds of cuneiform tablets in central Iraq. They also uncovered some clay coverings and seals with the tablets. The collection of cuneiform ...

From ancient Mesopotamian rituals to the teachings of Buddha, Christ, and Muhammad — this is the story of how religion shaped human civilization. Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica as ...

Researchers at Columbia have created a chip that turns a single laser into a “frequency comb,” producing dozens of powerful light channels at once. Using a special locking mechanism to clean messy ...

For years, researchers have puzzled over how the ancient people of Rapa Nui did the seemingly impossible and moved their iconic moai statues. Using a combination of physics, 3D modeling and ...

The largest libraries of the ancient world weren’t mere book collections. They were centers of power, education, and survival across empires. Credit: Greek Reporter archive Clay tablets, papyrus ...

Cyberattack halts Asahi operations across 30 factories. Shares fall 12% as investors react to production shutdown. Japan records 116 ransomware cases in first half of 2025. Japan’s beer industry is ...