Already, the team has captured data from an unopened Egyptian scroll held in the Smithsonian museum in Washington DC, and is in discussions to analyse papyri from Petra, Jordan, that were burnt in a fire in the seventh century ad. What’s more, some archaeologists think that most of the ...
tech-enabled industrial businesses have an opportunity to lay a new cornerstone as we build America’s economic future. We’ve only begun to scratch the surface of our collective potential to make communities more livable, strengthen national security, and advance human discovery on Earth, and beyo...
but Ive knew how to guide him gently. He agreed that none of them was quite right, but he pointed out one that had promise. It was curved, playful-looking and did not seem like an unmovable slab rooted to the table. “It has a ...
Jack Hanna, an agronomy professor, bred a “hardy, tough-skinned tomatothat could be more readily harvested by machines” in the late 1950s, according to Smithsonian Magazine. It would pave the way for machines to start gathering the majority of tomatoes in California in the coming decades, ...
Indeed, Kindi argued that true knowledge was not bounded by cultural, linguistic, ethnic or religious limits. If humans want to comprehend the single underlying truth of the universe, they must build on the cumulative knowledge of centuries. “It has only been possible to collect...
7. Channel madness. It has long been believed that there is some kind of link between creativity and madness and, as it turns out, there appears to be some truth to it. In his bookDivine Madness, psychologist Jeffrey A. Kottler made the convincing case that great art...
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The remains of the mammoth, nicknamed Buttercup, are the subject of a new Smithsonian Channel documentary, "How to Clone a Woolly Mammoth." The female mammoth, who walked the earth 40,000 years ago, was found on an island in northern Siberia in 2013. The one-hour special airing Saturday ...
and while there are several medications that slow the breakdown of bone, as well as some that speed buildup, they can have side effects and they’re not used nearly as much as they could be, says Sundeep Khosla, an endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. That’s ...