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An unidentified female dynasty is revealed in a tomb with the biggest collection of beads in the world.
The Montelirio Tholos Tomb is a vaulted building located beneath the present-day town of Valencina de la Concepción in Southwestern Spain that has the remains of residents who lived there between 2875 and 2635 BCE.
By Francis Dami15 days ago in History
Nitrogen is necessary for young tropical rain forests to combat climate change.
By absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in wood, tropical rainforests contribute to the slowing of climate change. Forests that develop quickly are even more important because they absorb carbon more quickly.
By Francis Dami18 days ago in Earth
A building's lifetime climate impact is mostly determined by its daily energy use.
The majority of a building's climate impact is not caused by its construction. As the heating, lighting, and ventilation systems continue to function year after year, it gradually accumulates.
By Francis Dami18 days ago in Earth
The timing of Earth's ice ages may be influenced by Mars.
According to recent calculations, Mars may influence the date of ice ages by helping to establish a 2.4 million-year rhythm in Earth's orbit. Recently, researchers investigated the possibility of a tiny planet leaving a discernible imprint in long-term climate records.
By Francis Dami18 days ago in Earth
A woman from a vanished female dynasty was discovered buried with 270,000 beads.
In a Copper Age tomb close to Seville, Spain, the Montelirio bead assemblage contains over 270,000 beads that identify the ladies buried there as elites. The discovery is the biggest collection of beads ever
By Francis Dami18 days ago in History
A secret staircase found beneath a 1,500-year-old French church
A subterranean staircase and burial strata dating back approximately 1,500 years were discovered during a project inside the Church of Saint Philibert in Dijon, France. The stairs were discovered by restoration workers inside the church when repairs were being made, and the excavation soon ensued.
By Francis Dami18 days ago in History
Satellites show that ice loss at Earth's poles is gradually getting worse.
Polar ice sheets do not suddenly break or collapse, according to satellite data. They slip most of the time, slowly and unrelentingly. Massive rivers of ice flow towards the sea every day from the centres of Antarctica and Greenland. The amount of ice that ends up in the ocean and the rate at which sea levels rise are determined by this motion.
By Francis Dami20 days ago in Futurism
Real camouflage for people and machines is getting closer thanks to materials inspired by octopuses.
Engineers now have a closer resemblance to octopus skin thanks to a new colour-changing material that can change both its colour and surface roughness in less than 10 seconds. The soft photonic skin was created by Stanford University researchers using patterns on its surface that are tiny than a human hair.
By Francis Dami20 days ago in Petlife
A massive underwater stone wall that is almost 7,000 years old is found by divers.
One of the buried stone monuments on Sein Island is a granite wall off Brittany that is more than 7,000 years old and the length of a football pitch. The discovery is being used by marine archaeologists in the vicinity of Île de Sein to explain how stone-built coastal villages predate the widespread spread of farming.
By Francis Dami20 days ago in History
