Biblical scroll discovered in 'Cave of Horror' in Israel

 Posted on October 7, 2022  |  4 minutes  |  740 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Fragments of a biblical scroll dating back 1,900 years have been discovered in the "Cave of Horror" in the Judean Desert in Israel.   The cave's existence has been known for some time; it gets its macabre name from 40 ancient human skeletons that were discovered there in the 1960s. The skeletons are of people who starved to death during the Bar Kokhba revolt, which occurred between A.D. 132 and A. [Read More]

Goths vs. Greeks: Epic Ancient Battle Revealed in Newfound Text

 Posted on October 7, 2022  |  4 minutes  |  783 words  |  Trudie Dory

Fragments of an ancient Greek text telling of an invasion of Greece by the Goths during the third century A.D. have been discovered in the Austrian National Library. The text includes a battle fought at the pass of Thermopylae. Researchers used spectral imaging to enhance the fragments, making it possible to read them. The analysis suggests the fragments were copied in the 11th century A.D. and are from a text that was written in the third-century A. [Read More]

How the sultans built the powerful Ottoman Empire

 Posted on October 7, 2022  |  5 minutes  |  887 words  |  Trudie Dory

In All About History issue 118(opens in new tab), on sale now, you can uncover the origins of the Ottoman Empire, from its first leader, Osman, through to the ascension of one of its greatest leaders, Suleiman the Magnificent.   Examining the earliest expansion of the Ottoman sultans from what is now Turkey down to Egypt and up into Eastern Europe, All About History chronicles the expansion, innovation and motivation of the early decades of this history-making empire. [Read More]

Lightning

 Posted on October 7, 2022  |  1 minutes  |  51 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Artists Have Been Drawing Lightning Bolts Wrong for Centuries

By Laura Geggel published 6 June 18

If you draw lightning bolts like crooked zigzags, then you're doing it wrong — but at least you're in good company. Artists have drawn lightning incorrectly for hundreds of years, a new study finds.

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People Stare Monsters in the Eye, Wherever It Is

 Posted on October 7, 2022  |  4 minutes  |  692 words  |  Trudie Dory

Using the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons, scientists now find one way that people can treat monsters like people too, looking them in the eyes even when those eyes are not located in their heads. These findings could help researchers better understand autism, where people often fail to meet the eyes of others. Animals, including birds, dogs, goats, seals, dolphins, monkeys and humans, follow the gazes of where others look. This act of literally seeing others' point of view may have played a key part in the evolution of human socializing. [Read More]

Perfect your home weights training

 Posted on October 7, 2022  |  5 minutes  |  1005 words  |  Trudie Dory

Sometimes working out at home just makes sense. Whether you're too tired to make your way to the gym or don't have the time to travel, having a home weightlifting routine can help you stick to your fitness goals.  Working out at home(opens in new tab) can be just as effective as a gym session, too, as long as you commit to a routine.  But while home training is convenient, we know it isn't always easy. [Read More]

Poachers Tried to Kill Rhinos in South African Reserve. Instead, a Pride of Lions Killed Them.

 Posted on October 7, 2022  |  3 minutes  |  431 words  |  Fernande Dalal

A pride of hungry lions in a South African reserve just saved the day, at least for a herd of rhinos. The poachers, who had illegally entered that reserve with a gun and axe to kill those rhinos, were not so lucky. The big cats mauled and killed at least two — possibly three — poachers, leaving behind just their bloodied and partly-eaten body parts, according to news reports. The illegal entrance and subsequent mauling attack happened at the Sibuya Game Reserve sometime between Sunday night (July 1) and Monday morning (July 2), according to a statement by the reserve. [Read More]

Rare Bird Flu Strikes Cats: What You Need to Know

 Posted on October 7, 2022  |  5 minutes  |  894 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

A rare strain of bird flu recently surfaced in sick cats in New York. Tests have confirmed that 386 cats housed in New York City's Animal Care Centers (ACC) were infected with the H7N2 strain of the influenza virus, The New York Times reported. One veterinarian who had prolonged exposure to the infected cats tested positive and recovered. At least two cats at the shelter died after being infected, one had the virus before it was admitted to an ACC shelter, the Times said. [Read More]

Supersponge the Size of a Minivan Found Near Hawaii

 Posted on October 7, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  415 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

An unusual sponge was spotted making waves in waters near the Hawaiian Islands — though it doesn't wear square pants and is far too big to live in a pineapple under the sea. The massive sponge — a marine animal with no skeleton and a soft, porous body — is the largest on record, researchers reported in a study. Identified as measuring approximately 12 feet (3.5 meters) in length and 7 feet (2. [Read More]

Two Canadian ice caps have completely vanished from the Arctic, NASA imagery shows

 Posted on October 7, 2022  |  3 minutes  |  474 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

On frosty Ellesmere Island, whereArctic Canada butts up against the northwestern edge of Greenland, two once-enormous ice caps have completely vanished, new NASA imagery shows. It's no mystery where the caps, known as the St. Patrick Bay ice caps, went. Like many glacial features in the Arctic — which is warming at roughlytwice the rate of the rest of the world — the caps were killed by climate change. Still, glaciologists who have studied these and other ice formations for decades are unnerved by just how quickly the caps disappeared from our warming planet. [Read More]