Basilica in Lake İznik to become underwater museum

Basilica in Lake İznik to become underwater museum

The remains of a nearly 1,600-year-old basilica that was discovered at the beginning of last year under Lake İznik (Greek Askania) in Turkey's northwestern province of Bursa is now set to become an underwater museum. The ancient underwater basilica in İznik (Nicaea) will soon be opened to tourism as a museum [Credit: DHA]The underwater museum project, approved by the Culture and Tourism Ministry, will be carried out by the Bursa... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Battle of Waterloo skeleton identified by historian

Battle of Waterloo skeleton identified by historian

The only complete skeleton from the Battle of Waterloo found in the last 200 years was discovered under a parking lot, and that's not even the most interesting thing about it. Belgian archaeologist Dominique Bosquet examines the remains of Friedrich Branft killed in the Battle of Waterloo [Credit: Reuters/Francois Lenoir]The skeleton belongs to a Hanoverian man with a hunchback, the archaeologists announced.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Hubble finds phantom objects near dead quasars

Hubble finds phantom objects near dead quasars

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a set of wispy, goblin-green objects that are the ephemeral ghosts of quasars that flickered to life and then faded. Astronomers have found knots of dust and gas in "greenish blobs" in nine galaxies with bright active nuclei. The eerie structures have looping, spiral, and braided shapes. Hubble's images show that they are like the remnants of galaxy collisions [Credit:... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Study resolves reptilian family tree

Study resolves reptilian family tree

A new study has helped settle the controversial relationships among the major groups of lizards and snakes, and it sheds light on the origins of a group of giant fossil lizards. New research sheds light on the evolutionary relationships of living and extinct reptiles. This skeleton belonged to a mosasaur, a carnivorous marine lizard that died out with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago [Credit: WikiCommons]Squamate... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Black holes don't erase information, scientists say

Black holes don't erase information, scientists say

Shred a document, and you can piece it back together. But send information into a black hole, and it's lost forever. An artist's impression shows the surroundings of a supermassive black hole at the heart of the active galaxy NGC 3783 in the southern constellation of Centaurus [Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser]That's what some physicists have argued for years: That black holes are the ultimate vaults, entities that suck in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Astronomers watch unfolding saga of massive star formation

Astronomers watch unfolding saga of massive star formation

A pair of images of a young star, made 18 years apart, has revealed a dramatic difference that is providing astronomers with a unique, "real-time" look at how massive stars develop in the earliest stages of their formation. Artist's conception of the development of W75N(B)-VLA-2.. At left, a hot wind from the young star expands nearly spherically, as seen in 1996. At right, as seen in 2014, the hot wind has been shaped by... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Russian oil workers make mammoth find

Russian oil workers make mammoth find

A tusk of a female woolly mammoth appeared in an excavator bucket as oil workers were undertaking land reclamation work some 50km from Nyagan, a town in the northwest of Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Paleontology museum expert Anton Rezvy, head of the palaeontological department of the Khanty-Mansiysk Museum of Nature and Man, was quickly at the scene of the find [Credit: Anton Rezvy]They started digging with hand... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Neanderthals killed off by diseases from modern humans, claims study

Neanderthals killed off by diseases from modern humans, claims study

Modern humans have been blamed for killing off the Neanderthals by out competing them, breeding with them and even outright murdering them. Neanderthals may have succumbed to infectious diseases carried to Europe by modern humans as they migrated out of Africa [Credit: George Gillard]But new research suggests it may actually have been infectious diseases carried by our modern ancestors as they migrated out of Africa that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

New evidence shows carbon's importance to ocean life's survival 252 million years ago

New evidence shows carbon's importance to ocean life's survival 252 million years ago

A new study led by scientists with The University of Texas at Arlington demonstrates for the first time how elemental carbon became an important construction material of some forms of ocean life after one of the greatest mass extinctions in the history of Earth more than 252 million years ago. Backscattered electron image of Hyperammina deformis [Credit: Merlynd and Galina Nestell]As the Permian Period of the Paleozoic Era ended... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

'Coinage and Power in Ancient Israel' at the Museum of Art History in Vienna

'Coinage and Power in Ancient Israel' at the Museum of Art History in Vienna

Ancient Jewish coins were minted from the fourth century BC to the reign of Emperor Hadrian in the second century AD; they offer unique insights into the history and civilization of ancient Israel. Coins document the period of Persian rule, the time of the Hasmonean dynasty, the reign of Herod the Great, and, last but not least, they bear witness to the two Jewish-Roman wars. In AD 135 the Second Jewish War, also known as the Bar... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

DNA can't explain all inherited biological traits, research shows

DNA can't explain all inherited biological traits, research shows

Characteristics passed between generations are not decided solely by DNA, but can be brought about by other material in cells, new research shows. A histone is a protein that provides structural support to a chromosome. In order for very long DNA molecules to fit into the cell nucleus, they wrap around complexes of histone proteins, giving the chromosome a more compact shape. Some variants of histones are associated... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Wales Uplands Archaeology Initiative uncovers history

Wales Uplands Archaeology Initiative uncovers history

Prehistoric sites are among the latest discoveries in the final part of a 28-year study of Wales' countryside. Prehistoric landscape at Pembrokeshire's Preseli Mountains shows ancient field walls [Credit: RCAHMW]The finds around Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, mark the end of a project to survey moorland left "unimproved" over the years to find unrecorded sites. Over 42,000 archaeological features have been recorded in the Uplands... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]