Feb 25th, 2026 - The inscriptions show that people from different parts of India interacted with Greeks and Egyptians in Egypt in the 1st-3rd centuries AD The recent discovery in the Valley of the Kings of nearly 30 inscriptions in ancient Indian languages, across six tombs, provides new evidence for the presence of Indians in Egypt between the first and third centuries AD. At last week's International Conference on Tamil Epigraphy in the South Indian city of Chennai, Charlotte Schmid, of the French School of Asian Studies in Paris and Ingo Strauch, of the University of Lausanne, presented a paper on their ... [Read More]

Feb 24th, 2026 - An analysis of 20 urine samples from chimpanzees in Uganda found byproducts of ethanol in at least 17 samples, indicating that apes ingest significant alcohol from the fermented fruit in their diet. Aleksey Maro knows far more than he cares to know about the urination habits of chimpanzees. But if you want to measure the alcohol intake of chimps in a Ugandan rain forest, where a breathalyzer is impractical, collecting urine for analysis is your only choice. To perfect his urine sampling techniques, Maro, a UC Berkeley graduate student, worked alongside Sharifah Namaganda, a Ugandan graduate ... [Read More]

Feb 24th, 2026 - WWSB ) - Marine units from the Venice Police Department and the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office responded over the weekend to a report of a manatee in distress in the Hatchett Creek area. Officers located an injured manatee showing signs of cold stress lesions and visible scarring along its tail, according to the Venice Police Department. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission biologists were notified and responded to assist, along with staff from Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium. With support from Sea Tow Venice, crews removed the manatee from the water. Mote Marine Laboratory ... [Read More]

Feb 24th, 2026 - A centuries-old sword from the time of the Crusades was discovered by a student swimming off the coast of Haifa, Israel, the University of Haifa revealed on Monday.  Shlomi Katsin, a student in the university's Department of Maritime Civilizations, was swimming off Dor Beach when he saw a group of divers with metal detectors, the school said. Katsin feared the divers were antiquities thieves and was able to chase them out of the area. Then, he saw the sword protruding from the seafloor, the university said. The discovery was entirely "by chance," according to the news release.  ... [Read More]

Feb 24th, 2026 - This year, in what it calls a " study ," Utah's Division of Wildlife Resources is killing off mountain lions in an effort to increase mule deer herds. It has hired trappers from the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, authorizing them to dispatch lions with any method, including banned traps and neck snares. The study, covering roughly 8.6 million acres in six management units, will run for at least three years with the goal of indiscriminately exterminating "as many (lions) as possible." Buying into this ancient predator-prey superstition are the nonprofits Sportsmen for Fish and ... [Read More]

Feb 24th, 2026 - Among the solar system's planets, Uranus is criminally overlooked. Much like its outer solar system neighbor, Neptune, this "ice giant" world is so far from the sun (and so visually bland ) that we have only ever sent a single spacecraft, NASA's Voyager 2, its way —and that was more than 40 years ago. That lone flyby, accomplished in late January of 1986, scarcely probed the planet's depths. And it occurred just after a solar storm squashed Uranus's magnetic field , limiting what scientists could learn about it from Voyager 2's observations. Yet despite Uranus's drab appearance, it may ... [Read More]

Feb 23rd, 2026 - Gold "supraballs" capture about 90% of the solar spectrum At any given moment, 89,000 terawatts of solar power hits the Earth's surface. While significant advancements have been made in harvesting this power, existing technologies do not capture the full potential of the entire solar spectrum. This limitation primarily lies in these technologies' incomplete absorption of the sun's ultraviolet, visible, and infrared radiation. A team of researchers at KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Seoul, has now reported a way of absorbing nearly the full usable solar spectrum ... [Read More]

Feb 23rd, 2026 - Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of data, the amount of digital information we save is increasing exponentially.  The research arm of Microsoft has been working on a method for data storage that uses a laser to write inside glass. The researchers say that the information written in the glass will last for 10,000 years.  If this method can be scaled for commercial use, it could change how we store the world's information. ... [Read More]