On Christmas Eve, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will get closer than ever to the sun
NASA's Parker Solar Probe will get closer to the sun than ever before. Astrophysicist Nour Rawafi explains how this mission could help solve the sun's most perplexing mysteries.
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Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker Announces New Instrument Orchid
Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker has announced a new instrument called Orchid. Conceived by the producer extraordinaire over a decade ago, and developed by Telepathic Instruments, Orchid is an ...
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Archaeologists Have Uncovered History’s Oldest Known Alphabetic Writing On Cylinders Found In A 4,400-Year-Old Syrian Tomb
Research at the site yielded numerous fascinating finds, but none stood out more than the discovery of several finger-length clay cylinders etched with alphabetic inscriptions that have been dated to ...
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Ancient Clay Cylinders Reveal What May Be World's Oldest Alphabetic Writing
The alphabetic writing system was identified on finger-length clay cylinders excavated from a tomb in an ancient Syrian city known as Tell Umm-el Marra. The artifacts came to light during a 16 ...