The First Amendment should have ended the sedition laws, but in 1798, the Alien and Sedition Acts were signed by John Adams ...

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor that represents how close humanity is to self-destruction, due to nuclear weapons and climate change. The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, ...

Sep. 25, 2024 — Scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside the Tarim Basin mummies in China, dating back approximately 3,600 years.

The Phaistos disk from circa 1700 B.C. The signs were not engraved using a stylus but rather pressed onto the wet clay using molds or seals in a kind of ancient typesetting. One of the great ...

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is one that's rarely heard these days. Of course, it used to be the case that we relied on clock towers to ensure we weren't late. The earliest examples had no clock faces and so it made sense to ...

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What is the molecular clock? Levels of molecular variation could be used, in principle, to estimate divergence times, serving as evolutionary "clocks" that "tick" at different rates. Subsequent ...

Sunrise alarm clocks mimic the gradually brightening light of the sun to ease you out of sleep. Think of it as a biological hack. “We evolved to align our sleep-wake cycles with the sun ...

And they used some of their new knowledge to make inventions like the water wheel, the alarm clock, the catapult and even, the vending machine! Finally, our language has roots in ancient Greece ...

But the lesson is on display in Olomouc, an ancient city tucked away in the leafy eastern Czech Republic. The inner city's crown jewel is a towering astronomical clock said to date back as far ...

The ancient Egyptians had many gods and goddesses. Gods created the universe and made sure everything was in order. They were also involved in everyday life. The god Khnum was the god of the ...