Like going to the eye doctor for a better pair of specs, astrophysicists are getting some upgraded lenses — both humanmade and natural — for a closer look at dark matter. An international team of ...
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Roman concrete has lasted 2,000 years because seawater makes it grow stronger
Concrete poured by Roman engineers into Mediterranean harbors roughly two millennia ago is still intact, while modern ...
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could revolutionize the search for alien worlds by discovering around 100,000 exoplanets—far ...
For the first time, researchers have conducted a quantified analysis of the Roman siege at Masada. The team, from Tel Aviv University’s Sonia & Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, used a blend of ...
Researchers have solved a decades-old mystery by showing that a cache of 43 helmets found off the Spanish coast is medieval, ...
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The fall of the Roman Empire was less a clash of civilizations and more an opportunity to mix and mingle, a new genetics study shows
After hundreds of years of colonial dominance in Europe, the western Roman Empire fell in the fifth century C.E., weakened by internal strife and attacking Germanic tribes. The empire’s long reign and ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
A new chemical and microscopic analysis of Pompeii residues documents a sacrificial rite that had only been previously described by ancient Roman writers and artists. Reading time 3 minutes The ...
Genetic analysis of 1039 people buried in Britain between the Bronze Age and the Norman conquest highlights the impact of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings on the island’s ancestry ...
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