Determining by means of paleography the chronology of ancient handwritten manuscripts such as the Dead Sea Scrolls is essential for reconstructing the evolution of ideas, but there is an almost ...

Titan is an intriguing world cloaked in a yellowish, smoggy haze. Similar to Earth, the atmosphere is mostly nitrogen and has weather, including clouds and rain. Unlike Earth, whose weather is driven ...

The 2,600-year-old stone relief was unearthed at the archaeological site of Nineveh in the modern-day city of Mosul in northern Iraq. Nineveh was the capital and largest city of the Neo-Assyrian ...

The formation of the heaviest elements relies on astrophysical environments with a copious amount of neutrons. Neutrons can be found in the cosmos bound in atomic nuclei or in medium under extreme ...

Large spiral galaxies like our Milky Way are expected to take several billion years to form. During the first billion years of cosmic history, galaxies are thought to be small, chaotic, and irregular ...