The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.

As tough as medieval chainmail armor and as soft as a contact lens. This material is not taken from science fiction, it is a ...

A study has, for the first time, identified minute traces of broomcorn millet consumption directly from human dental calculus ...

New research by a historian from the University of Bristol offers an intriguing suggestion about one of history's biggest mysteries—the original purpose of the world-famous Bayeux Tapestry.

Scientists analyzed artifacts from Tycho Brahe’s lab and found tungsten, an element unknown in his time, rewriting our ...

David Musgrove reports on new research that casts light on the appearance of the comet in the 11th century, and its depiction in the Bayeux Tapestry ...

Life in many medieval towns revolved around constructing a cathedral, a massive undertaking that took generations of work by everyone from artists and architects to prisoners of war. Work in ...

The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge ...

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