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.
UK, Nov 13 - Researchers discover that ancient Mesopotamian trade seals could contain the first clues to the world's oldest writing system.
A mysterious orange gelatinous sac filled with live eggs stuck together has been discovered afloat in a canal in the city of Utrecht, Netherlands, local portal AD reports.
USA, Nov 9. - Watching a movie is not exactly a walk in the park for the brain: in fact, it activates 24 different circuits to be able to follow the presence of people, inanimate objects, dialogues or action sequences.
USA, Nov 8. - Fax is an old technology supplanted by servers and online that, however, resists in some offices and also in the private use of some celebrities, such as Dolly Parton.