Spain, Sep 2.- We are used to knowing that, once every 24 hours, the Earth completes one rotation on its axis, marking what a day on our planet represents for us. This rotation period helped us create systems that dictated to us the exact moment/time of day we were and, of course, to animals and plants when it was time to wake up or go to rest.
Experts at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) of Mexico are currently investigating a stone tablet depicting Mayan hieroglyphs that seeminngly date back 550 years.
Markings on a stone pillar at a 12,000-year-old archaeological site in Turkey likely represent the world’s oldest solar calendar, created as a memorial to a devastating comet strike, experts suggest.
A team of archaeologists has discovered a series of rock art engravings in caves in ancient Nubia, today the territory of Sudan, in the heart of the hottest region of today's African desert.
Scientists from the Volgograd State Medical University (Russia) were the first in the world to develop a gel that has the ability to regenerate human bones, even if they were seriously damaged by bullets and shrapnel, local media reported this Saturday.
Researchers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States (USA) suggest that Mars may have been a habitable planet in antiquity, after analyzing the latest samples collected by the Curiosity rover, according to a statement from the body.
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS) reported that they found the Adella Shores after it went missing on May 1st. 1909 in Whitefish Point, Michigan (USA). The wooden, steam-powered boat disappeared in Lake Superior with 14 crew members on board.
Scientists showed that shipping, sonar, offshore exploration and construction interfere with whale songs and other acoustic communications necessary during their migration, Movement Ecology published.
After two decades of work, scientists and engineers at the US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory announced the completion of the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy.
Cuban scientists are working on preserving the fossil of a giant saurian found a few months ago in a cave in the Viñales Valley, one of the most important discoveries in the country's Paleontology.
Imagine that you go to a friend's house for the first time and, upon entering, you feel that you have already been there, that you know the place even as if you knew where everything is. However, you know perfectly well that you have never been before.
To commemorate the 215th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, researchers involved in the Darwin Online project have published a 300-page catalogue, containing the 7,350 titles and 13,000 volumes that made up the British scientist's library.