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We are makers of history, yet we are also molded by it. The line connecting us to our ancestors spans decades, centuries, and millennia; the lessons learned from our progenitors are passed down the generations through timeless stories and discovered remnants of our enigmatic yet beautiful past. Modern Sciences recounts the passage of time, how humanity has shaped it, and how it has shaped humanity.
Amelia Earhart’s Fated Flight
Amelia Earhart’s disappearance during her 1937 Pacific flight was primarily due to miscommunication and technical mishaps, including reliance…
Japanese scientists were pioneers of AI, yet they’re being written out of its history
Hansun Hsiung, Durham University The announcement of the artificial intelligence researchers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton as this…
Our Real-Life “Hobbit” Cousins
Found in 2003 in Liang Bua Cave, Indonesia, Homo floresiensis (“hobbits”) were a diminutive hominin species standing about…
From using plant rinds to high-tech materials, bike helmets have improved significantly over the past 2 centuries
Modern bike helmets are made through complex materials engineering. Johner Images via Getty Images Jud Ready, Georgia Institute…
Ancient human DNA from a South African rock shelter sheds light on 10,000 years of history
Victoria Gibbon, University of Cape Town; Joscha Gretzinger, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and Stephan Schiffels, Max…
Why Ships Keep Sinking in These Treacherous Seas
The world’s oceans have notorious shipwreck graveyards like North Carolina’s “Graveyard of the Atlantic,” Canada’s Sable Island, and…
Did Romans really fight rhinos? Sports historian explains the truth behind the battle scenes in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II
In the trailer for Ridley Scott’s hotly anticipated sequel to Gladiator (2000), a new gladiator (played by Paul…
DNA reveals secrets of cave-dwelling medieval community that survived conquest and epidemics
Las Gobas. GPAC, Author provided Anders Götherström, Stockholm University and Ricardo Rodriguez Varela, Stockholm University In a new…
Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded for Discovery of MicroRNA’s Role in Gene Regulation
(Featured image: Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach) At a Glance The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet…
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 Awarded for Innovations in Protein Research
(Featured image: Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach) At a Glance On October 9, 2024, the Royal…