A stunning 1,500-year-old monastery has been unearthed - with parts of it's intricate mosaic floor still somehow preserved. Discovered in the city of Kiryat Gat, Israel, some 56 km south of Tel ...

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In the 20 years since “A Million Ways,” OK Go have used their music videos to stage silly, improbably precise viral happenings. The big one, of course, was “Here It Goes Again,” the one ...

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The historical sources, however, are far less forthcoming. As John Barton, former professor of the interpretation of holy scriptures at the University of Oxford, puts it: “There is no evidence of a ...

The U.S. Bureau of Industry & Security has removed three Indian entities, Indian Rare Earths, IGCAR, and BARC, from its restrictive list. This move aims to boost joint research and collaboration in ...

Errors in quantum computers are an obstacle for their widespread use. But a team of scientists say that, by using an antimony atom and the Schrödinger's Cat thought experiment, they could have ...

Manchester City have made a breakthrough in transfer negotiations for Eintracht Frankfurt striker Omar Marmoush, paving the way for the forward to become their third signing of the January ...

Prof James Catto from the University of Sheffield described the findings as a "major breakthrough" in treating bladder cancer. The University of Sheffield led the trial, alongside Barts Cancer ...