Shattered crocodile. Formally, Confractosuchus. It was discovered in Australia when a bulldozer clearing a boulder broke a stone into pieces. Exposed portions of the broken-up rock made clear that fossils were inside, but there was no immediate sign that this discovery would later reveal an unprecedented snapshot of life from the Cretaceous Period.
Paleontologist Matt White of the University of New England in Armidale, Australia, and colleagues arranged to have the fossil-laden rock scanned with X-ray computed tomography. Like
It’s one of the world’s most famous train stations but there’s a lot more to New York’s Grand Central than meets the eye.
Built 110 years ago, the cavernous Beaux Arts-style commuter hub harbors a spread of secret nooks and crannies that even the most seasoned of patrons might be surprised to learn about.
For instance, on the fourth floor there is a tennis club that was installed in 1966 by a Hungarian immigrant and in another corner of the
Genetics, healthy eating or just plain luck are among the factors thought to be behind living to see your 100th birthday.
But despite the uncertainty around how to reach this milestone, there are a record number of centenarians living in England and Wales, data for the Office for National Statistics revealed this week.
In 2021, nearly 14,000 people lived to 100 in England and Wales — up by more than a quarter in just a decade.
Here, longevity experts and
As China’s spy balloon drifted across the continental United States in February, American intelligence agencies learned that President Xi Jinping of China had become enraged with senior Chinese military generals.
The spy agencies had been trying to understand what Mr. Xi knew and what actions he would take as the balloon, originally aimed at U.S. military bases in Guam and Hawaii, was blown off course.
Mr. Xi was not opposed to risky spying operations against the United States, but American
Fifty years after the military coup that brought down Salvador Allende and installed the Pinochet dicatorship, there are still top secret documents on the US role that must be declassified.
On August
Susana López Charretón is among Mexico’s leading virologists. She has been awarded the UNESCO–Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology and the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science award. She’s the only female Mexican scientist to have edited the Journal of Virology.
But winning prizes isn’t what inspires her science and her career. “Prizes and recognition are just a consequence,” she says. “Actually, I’m mostly embarrassed by them.”
Instead, it’s curiosity and a thirst for understanding and solving problems that drive
If there’s one thing authors love more than procrastinating, it’s praising one another. During the Renaissance, Thomas More’s Utopia got a proto-blurb from Erasmus (“divine wit”), while Shakespeare’s First Folio got one from Ben Johnson (“The wonder of our stage!”). By the 18th century, the practice of selling a book based on some other author’s endorsement was so well established that Henry Fielding’s spoof novel Shamela even came with fake blurbs, including one from “John Puff Esq.”
Blurbs have always
Famously, the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944/45 was one of the largest and bloodiest armed conflict of the Second World War.
Taking place in densely forested Ardennes region between Belgium and Luxembourg, it was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II.
Months after it ended in January 1945, the war came to a close, and for almost 80 years since the region has held its secrets under the trees
What’s not to love about Italy? It’s a country that I (and my tastebuds) could never tire of. Having visited the Northern lakes and fallen in love with Rome, I’ve become obsessed with the Italian way of life. The cuisine, the elegant fashion and Italian lifestyle philosophies are admired around the world. Who doesn’t want to embrace a little Italian know-how in to their lifestyle?
It feels like references to Italy are everywhere this summer. Latte makeup, the Mediterranean tomato … Read more
An elite group of North Korean hackers secretly breached computer networks at a major Russian missile developer for at least five months last year, according to technical evidence reviewed by Reuters and analysis by security researchers.
Reuters found cyber-espionage teams linked to the North Korean government, which security researchers call ScarCruft and Lazarus, secretly installed stealthy digital backdoors into systems at NPO Mashinostroyeniya, a rocket design bureau based in Reutov, a small town on the outskirts of Moscow.
Reuters could
