The Great London [02/09/22] 

  • Space Exploration: Mars' surface revealed in unprecedented detail

    The surface of Mars – including the location of Beagle-2 – has been shown in unprecedented detail by UCL scientists using a revolutionary image stacking and matching technique.Original HiRISE image at 25-centimetre resolution and super-resolution restoration (SRR) from six HiRISE images at 6.25-centimetre resolution of the Shaler …

  • Travel: 'Stonehenge: A Hidden Landscape' at MAMUZ Museum Mistelbach, Austria

    The name Stonehenge is full of mysteries. It is probably the most famous prehistoric monument, and also the monument about which the most myths and legends have been created. For the first time in the world, an exhibition is being shown about the fascinating cult complex Stonehenge and its surrounding landscape including the lates…

  • Jordan: Drone offers glimpse of looting at Jordanian site

    At a sprawling Bronze Age cemetery in southern Jordan, archaeologists have developed a unique way of peering into the murky world of antiquities looting: With aerial photographs taken by a homemade drone, researchers are mapping exactly where - and roughly when - these ancient tombs were robbed.Chad Hill, an archaeologist at the U…

  • UK: Roman fort built in response to Boudicca’s revolt discovered in London

    New archaeological research, carried out by Museum of London Archaeology (Mola), of a previously unknown early Roman fort built in AD63 as a direct response to the sacking of London by the native tribal Queen of the Iceni, Boudicca. The revolt razed the early Roman town to the ground in AD60/61 but until now little was understood …

  • Palaeontology: Fossil of 425-million-year-old parasite found intact with its host

    An international team of scientists led by the University of Leicester has discovered a new species of fossil in England -- and identified it as an ancient parasitic intruder.Two pentastomids (in orange) attached externally to the ostracod; one of the pentastomids; the ostracod with its shell removed, showing the external pentasto…

  • Oceans: Rising carbon dioxide levels stunt sea shell growth

    Scientists have discovered that stunted growth can be a genetic response to ocean acidification, enabling some sea creatures to survive high carbon dioxide levels, both in the future and during past mass extinctions.Scientists have discovered a genetic response to ocean acidification [Credit: University of Plymouth]Using natural C…

  • Breaking News: Solar storms trigger Jupiter's 'Northern Lights'

    Solar storms trigger Jupiter's intense 'Northern Lights' by generating a new X-ray aurora that is eight times brighter than normal and hundreds of times more energetic than Earth's aurora borealis, finds new UCL-led research using NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory.Artistic rendering of Jupiter's magnetosphere[Credit: JAXA]It is the…

  • Breaking News: Cosmic beacons reveal the Milky Way's ancient core

    An international team of astronomers led by Dr. Andrea Kunder of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) in Germany has discovered that the central 2000 light years within the Milky Way Galaxy hosts an ancient population of stars. These stars are more than 10 billion years old and their orbits in space preserve the ea…

  • Genetics: A 100-million-year partnership on the brink of extinction

    A relationship that has lasted for 100 million years is at serious risk of ending, due to the effects of environmental and climate change. A species of spiny crayfish native to Australia and the tiny flatworms that depend on them are both at risk of extinction, according to researchers from the UK and Australia.A light microscope …

  • Europe: Skeletal marker of physiological stress might indicate good, rather than poor, health

    Biological anthropologist Sharon DeWitte studies ancient skeletons that can open a window onto the human history she hopes to illuminate. But as she and graduate student Samantha Yaussy show in a recently published study, some of the markers on the skeletons that scientists use to decipher the past might need to be looked at in a …

  • Turkmenistan: 'Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs' at the Metropolitan Museum New York

    Opening April 27 (and running until July 24, 2016) at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the landmark international loan exhibition Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs features spectacular works of art created in the 11th through 13th century from Turkmenistan to the Mediterranean.One of the most productive periods …

  1. The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus: an ancient Egyptian mind boggler
  2. 'Underground Revolution' features 8,500 years of history in Istanbul
  3. Pagan Icelander ‘re-buried’ 1,100 years after death
  4. Walk the ruins of Machu Picchu on Google Street View
  5. Xinjiang Khotanese Buddhist wall paintings displayed in Shanghai