Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient limestone sarcophagus in the two-storey annex bordering the courtyard of St Nicholas Church in the Turkish city of Demre (Antalya province), where the saint is believed to have been born.
Florence, Dec 6. - Thanks to artificial intelligence combined with very high-resolution imaging techniques, it is possible to reveal the first signs of twenty of the main and most widespread chronic and degenerative diseases of the retina and to determine the biological age of a person.
A NASA radar has accidentally discovered a hidden structure under the ice in the Arctic. It is Camp Century, a US military base built during the Cold War, which was buried by layers of ice and snow in Greenland.
USA, Dec 4. - PlayStation, the video game console manufactured and distributed by the Japanese company Sony, celebrated its 30th anniversary since being launched on the market on December 3.
Egypt, Dec 3. - A team of German and Egyptian archaeologists, led by experts from the University of Tübingen, has unearthed the entrance to a majestic stone temple in the ancient city of Athribis, near Sohag, Egypt. This find, which has captured the attention of the international scientific community, offers new clues about the architectural and cultural mysteries of the Ptolemaic era. The research, originally published in Sci.news, details the unique features of this structure that date back to the reign of Ptolemy VIII (182-116 BC).
French startup H is making waves in its quest for artificial superintelligence (ASI), another buzzword for AI capable of surpassing human intelligence by manifesting cognitive abilities. Here's everything we know about the Paris-based company. H was formerly called Holistic and was founded by veterans of Google's DeepMind AI lab.
The Solar Orbiter mission, led by the European Space Agency (ESA) in collaboration with NASA, has captured the most detailed images to date of the visible surface of the Sun and its outer atmosphere.
A team of archaeologists found finger-length clay cylinders dating back to around 2400 BC in the Tel Um Al-Mara area in the east of Aleppo province in northern Syria.
Yucatan, Nov 23. - Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already modifying the landscape of the Yucatan Peninsula in Central America.
The Guinness World Record has officially recognized the Step Pyramid of Djoser, built in Egypt around 2630 BC, as the oldest pyramid in the world. However, a recent paper published in October presents an intriguing theory: it suggests that a layer of the Gunung Padang pyramid, located in Indonesia, could have been erected approximately 25,000 years ago.
US, Nov 16 - Following Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election, the number of users, mainly Americans, of the social network X, owned by Elon Musk, who this year became one of the people closest to the future tenant of the White House, began to decline significantly.
In the Al Nafud desert, in the Saudi province of Al Jawf, in the northeast of the country, the first snowfall in its history has fallen.