Feb. 25, 2025 — In the world of medicine, the journey from ancient practices to modern pharmaceuticals is both fascinating and complex. The latest episode of the Big Ideas Lab podcast delves into the evolution of drug discovery, and how cutting-edge…
Galloping bubbles. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56611-5 A team led by researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill have made an extraordinary discovery that is reshaping our understanding of bubbles and their movement. Picture tiny air bubbles inside a container filled with…
A team of archaeologists has made an unexpected and groundbreaking discovery deep within an ancient underground tunnel in Jerusalem. While exploring the tunnel’s depths, researchers stumbled upon a phenomenon never before documented—cave pearls naturally formed over centuries, encasing archaeological artifacts…
On the ground floor of an apartment complex in West Harlem, Donald Clayton and Mfundishi Jhutyms Hassan Salim sit in their office surrounded by historic photos of Malcolm X. Source link
A 2,600-year-old ankle ring containing meteoritic iron. Częstochowa Museum/Archeologia Żywa/Facebook The burial sites of Częstochowa-Raków and Częstochowa-Mirów in southern Poland are at least 2,600 years old, coinciding with Europe’s late Bronze Age. Yet they yielded several dozen iron objects, at…
Evan Woodard lights up when he talks about antiques like slate pencils, porcelain dentures and chamber pots, portable toilets used prior to luxuries like indoor plumbing. “With those, you can tell who was born into money and who was a…
Nigeria is expected to receive over 100 Benin Bronze artifacts that were stolen during British imperialism, in an effort to redress the colonialism that robbed the country of much of its cultural history. The Netherlands, where many of the items…
The Charleston Museum has acquired a “Brown Bess” musket and a folding camp bed from the Revolutionary War era, both of which will be featured in a special exhibit next year to commemorate the nation’s 250th anniversary. The “Brown Bess”…
While many sequences from Stephen King‘s movie adaptations are scary, one 2-minute scene from a relatively obscure film has scarred the most. Stephen King has written over 66 books so far, of which many have received television and movie adaptations.…
Architect Henry Hornbostel’s 1905 School of Applied Design, now Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Fine Arts building, is a beaux arts structure built around a cavernous, marble-laden Great Hall featuring a curved ceiling mural depicting the great buildings of the…