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A trove of books written by medieval-era French monks were bound with bizarre “hairy” covers from far-away animals — shedding ...
Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some ...
An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...
The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...
World Quantum Day in the UN-designated International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. The designation celebrates the 100th anniversary of Werner Heisenberg’s discovery of what became ...
What can centuries-old whaling ship logs tell us about today’s extreme weather? According to scientists, the answer is a lot. They’re using the information recorded by mariners going back hundreds of ...
Gaposchkin, the woman who overcame adversity to discover the meaning of stars.
The principal of Covenant College has paid an emotional tribute to the six-year-old student who was killed on his way to school. Carla Mascarenhas is the NSW correspondent covering breaking news ...
Having a chip in your brain that can translate your thoughts into computer commands may sound like science fiction - but ... he was paralysed - the 30-year-old became the first person to get ...
Melbourne: In a massive breakthrough, Melbourne-based researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) at the Parkinson's Disease Research Centre have solved a decades-long mystery which is ...
When Ava Lee uploaded a video of her grandma's skincare routine to TikTok, viewers were shocked by 85-year-old Young-ja Joo's clear complexion. Lee, who is a content creator and CEO of byAVA ...
Scientists have finally solved the mystery of how the fossilized feathers of a 30,000-year-old vulture were preserved ... She previously worked as a science reporter for Newsweek, and has also ...