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National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards

admin24 April 2025

The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.

Hidden Above a Trap Door, 17th-Century Frescoes Come to Light

admin24 April 2025

Imagine mounting a scaffold in the atrium of a historic Roman estate. You spy a small trap door in the vaulted ceiling; on inspection the hatch opens into a cavity between the new ceiling and an older one. In the older ceiling is a second trap door ...

It’s Springtime on Polaris-9b, and the Exoflowers Are Blooming

admin24 April 2025

Imagine setting out for a springtime stroll. Not here on Earth but on some distant planet — call it Novathis-458b — orbiting a distant star. Even light-years from home, you recognize some familiar pleasures: The sun (albeit a different sun) is ...

Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet

admin24 April 2025

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.

How to Evade Taxes in Ancient Rome? A 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Offers a Guide.

admin24 April 2025

It may not have been the tax-evasion trial of the century — the second century, that is — but it was of such gravity that the defendants faced charges of forgery, fiscal fraud and the sham sale of slaves. Tax dodging is as old as taxation itself, but ...