Three 2,500-year-old Phoenician figurines recovered from the Mediterranean. The leftmost and center figurines carry a symbol associated with Tanit, a mother goddess of the Phoenician pantheon.Credit...Jonathan J. Gottlieb In 1972, in one of the early finds of marine archaeology, researchers discovered a trove of clay figurines on the seabed off the coast of Israel. The figurines — hundreds of them
A simulation of the black hole merger GW190521, which resulted in a chirp heard seven billion years later by the LIGO and Virgo antennas.Credit...N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno/Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics; Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes Collaboration Well, that was some clash of the heavyweights. Astronomers reported on Wednesday that they had detected the loudest, most mas
An artist’s conception of Lystrosaurus in a state of torpor. Though its name means “shovel lizard,” it was more closely related to mammals.Credit...Crystal Shin How to tell if something that died 250 million years ago hibernated when it was alive? After all, hibernation — a state of reduced metabolism — is a good strategy for making it through long, harsh winters when food can be scarce. Biologist
TOKYO — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan said on Friday that he was resigning because of ill health, thrusting his country, during a global pandemic, into a new period of political uncertainty after a record-setting tenure that provided unaccustomed stability at the top. Mr. Abe, 65, announced his decision to step down just four days after he had set a record for the longest uninterrupted run as
An artist’s rendering of the Triassic Era aquatic reptile Tanystropheus. Its nine-foot neck contained only 13 vertebrae.Credit...Emma Finley-Jacob Nearly 250 million years ago, a very odd reptile patrolled the shorelines and coves of the Triassic Alps. Called Tanystropheus, it had a toothy head and a body echoing that of modern monitor lizards. But between them stretched a horizontal, giraffe-like
Mars is the darling of many planetary scientists, who continue to visit it through increasingly advanced robotic explorers. But don’t forget that our planetary neighbor is adorned with two moons: puny Phobos, a lumpy mass 17 miles across; and diminutive Deimos, just 9 miles long. Their names in ancient Greek may mean “fear” and “dread’, but the aesthetics of these Lilliputian space potatoes inspir
As Japan Nears 1,000 Daily Coronavirus Infections, It Shies From Restrictions Case numbers are climbing fast, with virus clusters in nursing homes, schools and elsewhere. But fingers are being pointed at Japan’s so-called hostess bars. Visitors in the Kabukicho district of Tokyo on Friday. Most of Japan’s recent coronavirus cases have been among people in their 20s and 30s, who tend to suffer only
About 3,000 years ago, people on the eastern edge of Asia began sailing east, crossing thousands of miles of ocean to reach uninhabited islands. Their descendants, some 2,000 years later, invented the double-hulled canoe to travel even farther east, reaching places like Hawaii and Rapa Nui. Archaeologists and anthropologists have long debated: Just how far did the Polynesians’ canoes take them? Di
“The_Donald” subreddit, now banned by Reddit, is home to more than 790,000 users who post memes, viral videos and supportive messages about President Trump.Credit...Pete Marovich for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — Reddit, one of the largest social networking and message board websites, on Monday banned its biggest community devoted to President Trump as part of an overhaul of its hate speech p
In 1967, he identified a disease that causes heart inflammation in children, one that Covid-19 has brought back into the news. Dr. Tomisaku Kawasaki in an undated photo. He identified a multisymptom inflammatory syndrome among children that some researchers thought may have been linked to exposure to the new coronavirus.Credit...Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Dr. Tomisaku Kawasaki, who in 196
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