This was the Piri Reis map, a world chart compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. While the map is famous for its early depiction of the Americas, a new wave of academic ...

(Waite Park, MN) - State Senator Aric Putnam joined Stearns County staff for a first-hand look at the aging computer systems used to enroll Minnesotans in key programs. These legacy systems are used ...

SACRAMENTO—In response to a temporary restraining order (TRO) pausing the $6.2 billion Nexstar/Tegna merger, Nexstar’s lawyers have strongly pushed back against the court order, saying that aspects of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ancient Spanish treasure discovered in 1963 yielded some surprising results when testing showed that pieces were made from ...

Traditional loko iʻa aquaculture ponds fed Hawaiians for thousands of years, but through the 19th and 20th centuries, most were abandoned. Today, they are not only staging a comeback, but providing a ...

Controversy has long swirled around an ancient gold-filled treasure discovered in 1963. Not because of arguments over who owns the 66-piece find, but rather, over just exactly what is included in the ...

Mr. Newport is a professor of computer science at Georgetown University and the author of “Deep Work.” Today we take for granted that diet and exercise are vitally important for our health and ...

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A jury decided Impossible Foods Inc. owes influencer Joel Runyon and his company Impossible X LLC $3.25 million in damages for infringing his “Impossible” trademarks. The jury issued a unanimous ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have acquired dogs from one another. By Emily Anthes In the waning days of the ...

Researchers in Egypt have discovered a massive trove of what amount to ancient notepads. The 43,000 ostraca—sherds of broken pottery onto which Egyptians scrawled short messages—were excavated from ...

A team of astronomers have revealed their findings of a planet outside of our Solar System that has an atmosphere – when scientists previously thought that shouldn’t be possible. Carnegie scientists ...