ScienceHistoryScienceHistoryNew 3D Scans Show the Titanic in All Its Sunken GloryMore than 700,000 images of the shipwreck, taken from submersibles, have produced a photorealistic 3D digital model.ByKevin HurlerPublishedMay 17, 2023Comments (19)
ScienceHistoryScienceHistory500-Year-Old Leonardo Da Vinci Sketches Show Him Grappling With GravityDa Vinci fiddled with gravity as a type of acceleration and got close to calculating the gravitational constant.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedFebruary 16, 2023Comments (13)
ScienceHistoryScienceHistoryResearchers Decrypt Coded Letters Written by Mary, Queen of ScotsThe 445-year-old missives offer new details about Mary’s experience as a prisoner of Queen Elizabeth I.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedFebruary 7, 2023Comments (12)
ScienceHistoryScienceHistoryFunky Doodles by Woman Named Eadburg Found in Medieval ManuscriptCareful imaging of an 8th-century book reveals humanoid figures scrawled in the margins.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedDecember 2, 2022Comments (11)
ScienceHistoryScienceHistorySome of the Earliest Printed Documents Just Got Blasted With X-RaysTwo texts made on different continents could help reveal the history of printing.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedAugust 23, 2022Comments (4)
ScienceHistoryScienceHistory108-Year-Old Calculations by Einstein Sell for $15 Million at AuctionThe physicist’s errors are literally worth more than his correct calculations.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedNovember 24, 2021Comments (4)
ScienceHistoryScienceHistoryFamous Viking Map of North America Is Totally FakeRevealed in 1965, the map was taken as further proof that Vikings reached the Americas before Columbus.ByGeorge DvorskyPublishedSeptember 27, 2021Comments (17)
ScienceHistoryScienceHistoryRare, Early Version of the King Arthur Legend Translated by ResearchersThe “Bristol Merlin,” an 800-year-old version of the myth, was found in an UK library two years ago.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedSeptember 3, 2021Comments (32)
ScienceHistoryScienceHistoryNavy Ship Sunk in Historic World War II Battle Is Now the Deepest Explored WreckThe USS Johnston sank on October 25, 1944, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.ByGeorge DvorskyPublishedApril 5, 2021Comments (16)
ScienceHistoryScienceHistoryA Dredge Crew Found Pre-Civil War Cannons Near Downtown SavannahBritish researchers believe the cannons belonged to the HMS Rose, a royal ship scuttled off Savannah in 1779.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedMarch 16, 2021Comments (8)
ScienceHistoryScienceHistoryForgotten Blueprints Reveal a Late Tweak to the Statue of Liberty's Torch ArmSculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi tweaked a design element proposed by Gustave Eiffel, changing the manner in…ByGeorge DvorskyPublishedApril 8, 2020Comments (4)
ScienceHistoryScienceHistoryFragment of Medieval Poem About a Talking Vulva Found in Austrian LibraryThe poem involves a woman who is having a debate with her apparently opinionated vulva about which of the two is…ByGeorge DvorskyPublishedJuly 30, 2019Comments (21)
ScienceHistoryScienceHistoryHow Historians Can Now See Invisible Text on Ancient ManuscriptsNew tech can literally make invisible text visible again, and in the process change our view of history.ByJohn R. QuainPublishedJune 27, 2019Comments (30)
ScienceHistoryScienceHistoryThe Sony Hacks Are Goddamn TerrifyingHow the Sony hacks could have changed everything for usByBrian BarrettPublishedDecember 9, 2014Comments (171)