A team of archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of 12 individuals, as well as an object similar to the Holy Grail, in a tomb located beneath the Treasury monument, at the archaeological site of Petra (Jordan), The New York Times reported this Monday.
Washington, Oct 15.- Finnish researchers discovered that the everyday effects of sleep, exercise, heart rate and mood could remain in the brain for more than 15 days, published in the journal PLOS Biology.
Spain, Oct 14.- Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from the western Mediterranean, according to a study carried out at the University of Granada based on the mortal remains of the navigator and his son Hernando, 'RTVE' reported. In this way, the research discards the hypothesis that Columbus came from the Italian city of Genoa.
NASA revealed its plans to carry out a manned mission to Mars in the 2030s, hoping that this expedition can unravel some of the geological mysteries of the red planet.
United Nations, Oct 8. - The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has just certified today what the world knew from its own sufferings: the year 2023 set a planetary record for global warming causing the depletion of water sources.
A group of researchers from scientific institutions in the United Kingdom determined that the vegetation on the surface of the Antarctic Peninsula, the part of Antarctica closest to South America, has increased more than 10 times in the last four decades, reports this Friday the University of Exeter.
Washington, Oct 4.- The James Webb Space Telescope detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide for the first time on the icy surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, Nature Communications publishes today.
USA, Oct 3.- On August 1, about 110 kilometers northwest of San Francisco, a ship dropped its unusual cargo into the ocean: three orange torpedo-shaped robots, each more than six meters long. For a day, the aquatic drones autonomously roamed the waters, examining almost 130 square kilometers of ocean floor.
USA, Oct 2. - Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), of the European Southern Observatory, a team of astronomers discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard, the closest star to our Sun, NASA reported today.
NASA reported that it had been able to decipher the origin of Mars spiders, unusual formations that extend across the surface of several regions in the southern hemisphere of the red planet.
USA, Sep 24.- The increasing acidification of the oceans leads the Earth to cross a new alert threshold that will affect planetary stability, its resilience and its habitability, according to a report from the Potsdam Institute for Impact Research Climate (PIK).
Africa, Sep 22. - Just at the beginning of spring, South Africa has been the scene of intense and unexpected snowfalls that cover large areas of its territory.