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2 days ago | 
discovermagazine.com | Monica Cull
Espionage, sex, public humiliation, murder - these may sound like tropes straight out of Game of Thrones , but they're actually all elements of a nearly 700-year-old cold case in England. After analyzing Medieval letters and records, a research team from the Cambridge University Institute of Criminology's Medieval Murder Maps project may have found the killer of a priest. However, this priest may not have been so innocent.
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3 days ago | 
discovermagazine.com | Monica Cull
Before now, one of the few ways to date the Dead Sea Scrolls was through palaeography (the study of handwriting) and radiocarbon dating. These methods place the age of the scrolls somewhere between the 3rd century B.C.E. and the 2nd century C.E. But a new AI date-prediction model may provide a more accurate date for the famous Dead Sea Scrolls. After using this new model, called Enoch, researchers have determined that the Dead Sea Scrolls may actually be older than previously thought.
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3 days ago | 
flipboard.com | Monica Cull
3 hours agoDead Sea Scrolls May Be Older Than We Thought, AI-based Study SaysThe Dead Sea Scrolls, already considered the oldest known manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible, may have been written earlier than previously thought, …1 hour agoNew Evidence Rewrites the Origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls, One of Judaism’s Ancient TextsA researcher used an AI program that analyzed handwriting data which, paired with radiocarbon dating, pointed towards the ancient texts being even more ancient than we thought.
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4 days ago | 
discovermagazine.com | Monica Cull
Identifying prehistoric Australian megafauna from fossils may have gotten easier thanks to collagen peptide markers. These peptides can help researchers distinguish different animal genera and perhaps even species.
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1 week ago | 
discovermagazine.com | Monica Cull
The Campi Flegrei (the Phlegraean Fields) area in Italy is no stranger to volcanic activity. One of the largest eruptions in the area took place around 40,000 years ago, covering the area in ash and blasting open a caldera 9 miles wide. A recent study in discusses another massive volcanic eruption that occurred in the area 109,000 years ago, known as Maddaloni/X-6.
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1 week ago | 
discovermagazine.com | Monica Cull
Bed bugs are a nuisance that often infect travelers in hotel rooms or used furniture that's brought into a new home. For thousands of years, bed bugs have enjoyed living off their human hosts, and it may have all started when the bugs spread from bats to our Neanderthal ancestors. According to a new study published in Biology Letters , some 60,000 years ago, bed bugs leapt off their bat hosts and onto some unsuspecting Neanderthals that were leaving a cave.
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1 week ago | 
discovermagazine.com | Monica Cull
An archeological discovery from the Dra' Abu el-Naga area on Luxor's West Bank reveals three new tombs of prominent statesmen from Egypt's New Kingdom era (1550 B.C.E. to 1070 B.C.E.). Based on the inscriptions inside the tombs, the all-Egyptian research team identified the names and owner titles of the tombs.
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2 weeks ago | 
discovermagazine.com | Monica Cull
Researchers have formally identified a group of elasmosaur fossils - some of the most famous in North America. The marine reptile, Traskasaura sandrae, a type of plesiosaur, has been added to a new and "very odd" genus which is unlike others known to science. T. sandrae had a 12-meter-long (about 40 foot) neck, and robust and sharp teeth that were likely used for crushing its prey. According to a new study, published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology , T.
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2 weeks ago | 
discovermagazine.com | Monica Cull
While we might not realize it, when it comes to deciding which people we trust more, we tend to lean towards people who grew up poor, according to a new study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology by the American Psychological Association (APA). We seem to trust those who grew up in middle to lower income households versus wealthy households. "Trust is essential for healthy relationships.
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2 weeks ago | 
discovermagazine.com | Monica Cull
Sharks don't have bones. Instead, their skeletons are made from mineralized cartilage that helps them constantly move through water. To understand the internal "sharkitecture" that helps keep these animals strong and graceful, researchers are putting sharks under the microscope. A new study, published in , found some surprising results. After analyzing shark cartilage, there appear to be two different regions within it. And each appears to have vastly different structures.
