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These ‘Invisible’ Solar Panels Appear Just Like Historic Italian Terracotta Roofs and Can Help Green Historic Buildings
In the historic Italian city of Vicenza, Veneto, a typically-Italian family business of artisans is handmaking not-so-typical solar panels.
Designed to be indistinguishable by the...
2,000-Year-Old Roman Road Uncovered in British Field is Like No Other–And of ‘Global Importance’
Workmen have uncovered a suspected Roman road in a field dating back 2,000 years that could be the only one of its kind in...
Iraqi Drought Reveals Stunning 3,400-Year-Old City Covered By Tigris River
German and Kurdish archaeologists have uncovered an ancient metropolis of the Mittani Empire once submerged below the Tigris River. The settlement was revealed when...
$35 Thrift Store Purchase Turns Out to be Priceless 2000-Year-old Roman Bust
A chipped marble statue bought for $35 from a thrift store has turned out to be a priceless 2,000 year-old Roman bust.
When Austin, Texas-based...
MIT’s New Paper Thin Speakers Can Cover Any Surface to Turn Your Room Into a Concert Hall
MIT engineers have developed a paper-thin loudspeaker that can turn any surface into an active audio source.
This thin-film loudspeaker produces sound with minimal distortion...
Stolen 22 Years Ago, Two Priceless Charles Darwin Notebooks Mysteriously Returned in Pink Gift Bag
On two leather and copper-bound field notebooks, Charles Darwin jotted down a variety of musings that formed his theory of evolution. Held at Cambridge...
Almost 500 New Mesoamerican Structures Discovered By Using Lasers
A laser mapping survey from airplane recently revealed nearly 500 Mesoamerican monuments hiding in plain sight, many for the first time.
The new discoveries challenge...
Earliest Prehistoric Art Discovered –And it Turns Out to Be Hand Prints Made by Children 170,000 Years Ago
Written by Matthew Bennett and Sally Christine Reynolds at Bournemouth University. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The...
A Lost Sunken City of Gold and Jewels Found in the Mud of Indonesian River
Nighttime divers on the Musi River in Indonesia are beginning to fish out fistfuls of gold, gems, and other treasures from the mud—and it...
Human Footprints Found in New Mexico Are 23,000 Years Old – Long Before the Ice Age Glaciers Melted
New scientific research conducted at White Sands National Park in New Mexico has uncovered the oldest known human footprints in North America.
The discovery reveals...
Rare Bronze Age Coffin Has Been Accidentally Discovered in a Golf Course Pond Along With Perfectly Preserved Ax
An early Bronze Age log coffin containing the remains of a man buried with an axe thought to date from 4,000 years ago has...
Caltech Uses Existing Underwater Cables to Detect Earthquakes and Tsunamis Ahead of Time
Seismologists at Caltech working with optics experts at Google have developed a method to use existing underwater telecommunication cables to detect earthquakes. The technique...
Buried Roman City Mapped in Stunning Detail Using Ground-Penetrating Radar
The Roman city of Falerii Novi has been mapped in stunning detail using ground-penetrating radar, revealing impressive monuments and a public bath complex.
Photo of the Day – Mosaic Pothole Art in Chicago
Volunteering to work on an archaeological dig in Pompeii inspired Jim Bachor to become a mosaic artist.
Today he is not appreciating art in volcano debris...
Ancient Roman Concrete Reveals Secret to Cutting Carbon Emissions
The chemical secrets of a concrete Roman breakwater that has spent the last 2,000 years submerged in the Mediterranean Sea have been uncovered by...