Archaeologists in eastern China have found 5,000-year-old skeletons of people experts say would have been unusually tall and strong.
A secret database filled with UFO incidents reported by airline crews is being kept away from prying eyes
A robotic doctor that can be controlled hundreds of kilometres away by a human counterpart is gearing up for action.
CERN and the Large Hadron Collider depend on a massive computer grid, as does the global network of scientists who use LHC data. CERN scientists are now teaching an AI system to protect the grid from cyber threats using machine learning.
It’s shiny. It’s sharp. It’s on Mars. It must be aliens! What appears to be a chunk of metal photographed by the Opportunity Rover has UFO buffs in a spin.
Stories and tales about gigantic beings inhabiting the Earth occur in almost all ancient cultures and civilizations.
Seven hundred years ago, Timbuktu was a dream destination for scholars, traders, and religious men. At the southern edge of the Sahara desert in what is now Mali, travelers from Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, Egypt, and Morocco met in the bygone metropolis to exchange gold, salt, and ideas. According to a description of Timbuktu in 1526 by the diplomat Leo Africanus, “more profit is to be made there from the sale of books than from any other branch of trade.”
