Pliny the Elder’s lifework, the Natural History, was a colossal monument to his insatiable inquisitiveness: thirty-seven volumes, crammed with facts strip-mined from some two thousand works, covering ...
Early woodcut images of cannibals in Java showed them as cynocephali – the dog-headed men reported in Pliny’s Natural History. Patagonia got its name from the reputed giants whom Antonio Pigafetta ...
The synchronization of data from two natural climate archives -- a speleothem from the Herbstlabyrinth Cave in Hesse (Germany) and ice cores from Greenland -- offers new insights into the chronology ...
Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...
An immersive new exhibition in Australia uses artifacts, sounds and projections to recreate the ancient Roman city ...
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Research co-led by the University of Maryland reveals that drought and increased temperatures in a CO2-rich climate can ...
Natural gas is abundant and affordable, primarily used for power generation and heating. The EU's shift from Russian gas due to the Ukraine conflict affects market supply and price dynamics. Top ...
They say variety is the spice of life, so this week we’re mixing it up and exploring three local companies offering spices and tea blends in various configurations. For Maggie de Vera, ice cream ...
The Swedish naturalist Carl Linné (1707-1778), better known by his Latinized name Carl Linnaeus, and later knighted as Carl ...
Natural product synthesis aims to prepare a complex target molecule such that the product is analytically identical to the naturally occurring compound, termed a natural product. It is used for ...
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