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Mystery of ancient astronomical calculator unveiled
11-29-2006 · EurekAlert!An international team has unravelled the secrets of a 2,000-year-old computer which could transform the way we think about the ancient world.
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- Radiologists attempt to solve mystery of Tut's demise
11-27-2006 · EurekAlert!
Egyptian radiologists who performed the first-ever computed tomography (CT) evaluation of King Tutankhamun's mummy believe they have solved the mystery of how the ancient pharaoh died. The CT images and results of their study were presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.
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- XO-3b: Supersized planet or oasis in the 'brown dwarf desert'?
05-30-2007 · EurekAlert!
One of the oddest extrasolar planets ever cataloged -- a mammoth orb more than 13 times the mass of Jupiter that orbits its star in less than four days -- will be unveiled at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Honolulu.
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- Free public lecture: The mystery of the Minoans
10-16-2006 · University of Bath
How much can you learn about a society without the written word? The language of the ancient Minoans has baffled historians for over one hundred years. Local people will have the opportunity to learn what we do and don't know about this ancient society at a free public lecture at the University of Bath in Swindon on Wednesday 18 October.
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- University of Leicester archaeologists unearth ancient curse
11-30-2006 · EurekAlert!
An ancient curse aimed at a thief is one of a number of treasures to be unveiled to the public for the first time, following the largest archaeological excavation the city of Leicester has ever seen.
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- Researchers give name to ancient mystery creature
10-17-2006 · EurekAlert!
For the first time, researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, have been able to put a name and a description to an ancient mammal that still defies classification.
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- Crusty Old Computer: New imaging techniques reveal construction of ancient marvel
12-02-2006 · Science News Online
Scientists have figured out the arrangement and functions of nearly all the parts of a mysterious astronomical computer that was recovered from a 2,000-year-old shipwreck.
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- Arctic expeditions find giant mud waves, glacier tracks
12-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
Scientists gathering evidence of ancient ice sheets uncovered a new mystery about what's happening on the Arctic sea floor today. Sonar images revealed that, in some places, ocean currents have driven the mud along the Arctic Ocean bottom into piles, with some "mud waves" nearly 100 feet across.
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- AGU journal highlights -- Sept. 6, 2007
09-09-2007 · EurekAlert!
Solving the mystery of booming sand dunes, South Asian monsoon shifts south since 1400, Ozone-destroying chemicals wane, Robotic probes improve ocean analysis, Universal rule for repeating earthquakes?, Abrupt climate change clues in tropical Africa, Antarctic ice cores record ancient meteoritic events, New angle on solar wind’s magnetic reconnections, Understanding permeability in sea ice, Global observations of large oceanic eddies, Magnetic reconnection at large and small scales, and Interhemispheric coupling between stratosphere and mesosphere are papers featured in the upcoming issue of Geophysical Research Letters.
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- Reading the tale of an ancient river
10-70-2006 · Science News Online
Ocean-floor sediment near England holds material deposited during the last ice age by what was then Europe's largest river system.
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- Paleontologists discover most primitive primate skeleton
01-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
The earliest branches of primate evolution are more ancient by 10 million years than previous studies estimated, according to an article featured in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers reconstructed the base of the primate family tree by comparing skeletal and fossil specimens representing more than 85 modern and extinct species. The team also discovered two 56-million-year-old fossils, including the most primitive primate skeleton ever described.
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