Archaeologists have discovered a 1,700-year-old royal tomb in Guatemala that’s overflowing with funeral offerings, including an intricately designed jade mask depicting a Maya deity. The tomb, which is located at an archaeological site known as Chochkitam near the borders of what are now Mexico and Belize, was the burial site for a previously unknown …
By Celine Smith Team members across NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center congregated Jan. 25 in the lobby of Building 4221 to observe NASA’s Day of Remembrance. Each January, the agency pauses to honor members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery, including the crews of …
To understand the basics of discrete and continuous data, it’s necessary to be familiar with the main differences between them. 1. Discrete Data Are Whole Numbers, Whereas Continuous Data Can Be Fractions or Decimals. Discrete data points are distinct, separate and countable, while continuous data points are part of a continuous spectrum. Before collecting …
National award opens to young science writers from state schools around the UK. Source link
It was 1910, or maybe 1911 or 1912, when Wilfrid Voynich, a Polish-born antiquarian, purchased a strange, medieval manuscript. Similar in size to an average paperback, at around 6 inches by 9 inches, the book burst at the seams, brimming with words and pictures of peculiar plants, strange stars, and bathing female figures. At …
Predictable and parallel changes occur in the fitness effects of mutations in Escherichia coli over 50,000 generations. Source link
We are “Not good, Elmo. Not good,” but thanks for asking. The beloved “Sesame Street” character put feelers out into the ether Monday, the final Monday in what feels like the longest January ever, checking to see how everyone was doing with a seemingly innocuous tweet. What transpired was an existential crisis by way …
A California teenager prosecutors say is responsible for hundreds of swatting attacks around the United States was exposed after law enforcement pieced together a digital trail left on some of the internet’s largest platforms, according to court records released this week. Alan Winston Filion, a 17-year-old from Lancaster, California, faces four felony charges in …
In 2013, the oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus), a species of small spotted cat from the Americas, was split into two species: the northern tiger cat (Leopardus tigrinus) and the southern tiger cat (Leopardus guttulus). New research led by the Universidade Estadual do Maranhão shows that the oncilla is in fact three separate species. The clouded …
January 31, 2024 3 min read A Brookings Institution report warns that energy-hungry artificial intelligence tech will worsen the climate crisis By Thomas Frank & E&E News CLIMATEWIRE | It’s been celebrated for its potential to save lives through improved forecasting during deadly weather. But artificial intelligence also plays “a significant role in exacerbating the …