5+ hour, 31+ min ago   (573+ words) A study published in 'Science' reconstructs the global evolution of languages over the last 12,000 years and challenges the narrative that the loss of linguistic diversity began exclusively with European colonialism. Today, humans speak or use signs in approximately 7,500 different languages....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (713+ words) Researchers at the University of Birmingham have achieved a breakthrough that tests one of the deepest questions in theoretical physics: whether time is a fundamental property of the cosmos or an illusion. The research, published in Physical Review Research by…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (484+ words) In the three millennia prior to the Common Era, the civilization of the Ancient Near East developed a writing system in which wedge-shaped characters were pressed with a stylus onto wet clay tablets that were then dried, thus obtaining a…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (440+ words) A recent study published in the journal Cryptologia presents what its author calls the Naibbe cipher, a manual substitution cipher system that, as he demonstrates, is capable of taking texts in Latin and Italian and converting them into gibberish that…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (510+ words) The proof of concept was carried out under real conditions during the travel of the President of the Republic to Japan on April 1, 2026, according to a preprint deposited in an open-access archive. The work, which combines polymer chemistry with computer…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (253+ words) Time crystals, a collection of particles that “keep time” by moving in repetitive and regular cycles, were theorized and later discovered approximately a decade ago. Although scientists have not yet created commercial or industrial applications for this intriguing form of…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago   (431+ words) Researchers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have identified a new state of matter within a material synthesized in their laboratories—an advance that could redefine the boundaries of quantum computing and space exploration, as it could enable the…...

1+ year, 16+ hour ago   (589+ words) The model, named after the mythological hero Aeneas, is an evolution of Ithaca, an earlier system created to restore, date, and locate Greek inscriptions. But Aeneas goes further: it not only reconstructs damaged texts, it contextualizes them, helping researchers make…...