The „old city“ of Mosul was taken over by the Islamic State group after 266 days of intense fighting. At the end of a 9-month offensive, the „capital“ of the Islamic State in Iraq „fell“ at the beginning of July Read More …
This is the promise of the fundamental discovery made in a laboratory of the Paris-Diderot University. An iron-based catalyst allows the molecule of CO 2 , dissolved in a liquid, to gradually lose its oxygen atoms which are then replaced Read More …
The discovery of a structure composed of human skulls in Mexico City, once the capital of the Aztec empire, reveals the existence of victims hitherto unsuspected by researchers: women and children. In the basement of Mexico City , the current Read More …
The Mexican experts have detected the presence of an unsuspected tunnel near the pyramid of the Moon, one of the emblematic monuments of the site of Teotihuacan in Mexico. Enigmatic galleries. An unknown underground passage was identified near the Moon Read More …
An exhibition at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris presents a selection of pieces of jade, the sacred green stone of the Maoris. The gold of the Maori of New Zealand is a green stone: the Pounamu . Symbol of Read More …
Microbial fossils discovered in Australia and dated 3.48 billion years indicate that terrestrial life would have appeared hundreds of millions of years earlier than estimated. A team of scientists from the University of New South Wales claims to have discovered Read More …
After 20 years of analysis, the fossil of a dinosaur embryo is finally associated with a new species of „terrible lizard“. But who was Baby Louie, that fossil dinosaur embryo found in China more than 20 years ago? After years Read More …
A team of Spanish archaeologists has exhumed the remains of a funerary garden in the necropolis of Abu El Naga Draa in Egypt. Plants, flowers and fruit trees accompanied the ancient Egyptians in their final journey to the afterlife as Read More …
10 million years ago, a mutation in the ancestor of man, allowed him to metabolize ethyl alcohol 40 times faster. Surprising as it may seem, drunkenness preceded the cultivation of grapes and wheat and even … the appearance of Homo Read More …
The fossil of a large marine reptile 90 million years old and rare in Europe, recently extracted from a private troglodyte cellar in Tuffalun (Maine-et-Loire, France), was presented Thursday 4 May 2017 at the Museum of Natural Sciences D’Angers and Read More …
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