In a paper published in PNAS, they reveal not only that these ancient carvings were applied in an intentional, systematic ...

Working with data storage technology company Cerbyte, Mayrhofer and colleagues were especially interested in identifying a material durable enough to use repeatedly at an atomic level. The answer came ...

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

Ancient artifacts unearthed in Alaska revealed migrants from Asia might have come to the Americas via an inland route, and ...

Ancient carvings once thought decorative may actually be early attempts to record information. Their statistical complexity matches that of proto-cuneiform, pushing the origins of writing-like systems ...

Stone artefacts from a rock shelter in South Africa have yielded chemical traces of toxic plant compounds, offering what ...

The tech world is a realm that enjoys obsessing over the newest things: the vibe coding apps, the orchestrating agents, the ...

French artist JR, popular for his large-scale projects from photographs to graffiti and street art, wants Parisians to do ...