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Saturn’s South Pole Has a New Decagon. What Is It?
3+ day, 51+ min ago (924+ words) Hubble has found a growing ten-sided atmospheric wave around Saturn’s south pole—the first large regular-sided jet seen there. Saturn has long been known for a strange shape in its clouds. A vast hexagon circles the planet’s north pole, holding…...
Mesen: What a Ramesses II Inscription Reveals
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (1007+ words) What if a city that appears in the records of ancient Egypt has been sitting in plain sight, hidden beneath later roads, barracks and stonework? The find does not provide a complete map of a lost city. It does something…...
Terra Preta: The Amazon’s Centuries-Old Fertile Soil
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (710+ words) Dig into an old settlement in the Amazon and the ground itself can reveal that people lived there. Beneath the vegetation, patches of dark soil contain charcoal, broken pottery and the remains of everyday meals. The houses may have disappeared....
Saturn’s South Pole Has a Ten-Sided Atmospheric Wave
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (495+ words) giving astronomers a new counterpart to the planet’s famous northern hexagon. The southern pattern appears to be evolving, raising a question that a single striking image cannot answer: will it become another enduring feature of the planet’s weather? A study…...
How Archaeologists Reconstruct the Making of Ancient Iron — Curiosmos
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (667+ words) An ancient iron object can look simple: a blade, nail, tool or fragment of a chain. Making it required a long chain of decisions, from finding ore and fuel to building a furnace and working the metal after it cooled....
Houses and a Possible Wine Press Found at Egypt’s Temple of Sekhmet
1+ week, 3+ day ago (600+ words) A joint Egyptian-Chinese archaeological mission has uncovered a mud-brick housing complex and a stone installation that may have been used as a wine press beside the Temple of Sekhmet at Mit Rahina, the site of ancient Memphis. The finds move…...
Guernsey Records Hide 17 Medieval Manuscript Fragments
1+ week, 6+ day ago (691+ words) The discovery is the first clear evidence that medieval books and sustained reading were present on the island, rather than arriving only through later English administration. The fragments were identified by researchers studying the material history of Guernsey’s records. A…...
A Viking Woman’s Brooches Preserved Fragments of Her 1,300-Year-Old Clothing — Curiosmos
2+ week, 2+ day ago (653+ words) Fragments of clothing have survived inside an eighth-century Viking woman’s grave in western Denmark, giving archaeologists a rare chance to study what she wore. The pieces were found attached to two concave "scoop" brooches from a burial at Skonager, near…...
How Does a Gravity Assist Work? Spacecraft Explained
2+ week, 2+ day ago (789+ words) How does a gravity assist send a spacecraft farther into the Solar System? The spacecraft flies close to a moving planet or moon and uses the body’s gravity to bend its path. Seen from the planet, the spacecraft leaves with…...
Bronze Age Greek Elites Wore Rings Made From Meteorite Iron
2+ week, 4+ day ago (693+ words) A chemical survey of 91 Bronze Age iron artefacts found that a small group of rings probably came from meteorites. Their tomb contexts suggest that “iron from the sky” carried status long before iron smelting became common. Long before iron ore…...