Science

AI read an ancient Greek word from a text damaged by Vesuvius in 79 AD, marking a major milestone in decoding the Herculaneum scrolls. The Greek word 'πορφύραc,' which translates to "(Tyrian) purple" in English, carries a rich cultural connotation...

Eötvös Loránd University scientists Dr. Ádám Sturm and Dr. Tibor Vellai have made a new breakthrough in figuring out why we age. Their research focused on something called "transposable elements" (TEs) in our DNA. Think of TEs as movable parts...

Recent research shows that more than 200 million years ago, Greece was part of a lost continent scientists call "Greater Adria." The only visible remnants of Greater Adria today are the mountain ranges of southern Europe, such as the Alps,...

Computerized artificial intelligence (AI) has analyzed a 2000-year-old burned parchment, and found mention of the generals and usurpers who succeeded Alexander the great, who is also spoken of in the text as "the good king who was ruling as...

A recent study, published on December 7th in the journal Cell, examined the DNA of people living in the Balkan region between 1 and 1000 CE. Experts concluded that there is no sign of Italian ancestry from the Iron...

Constantine Karatheodori (September 13, 1873 –  February 2, 1950) was a Greek mathematician known for his contributions to real and complex analysis, the calculus of variations, and measure theory. He is considered to be the greatest Greek mathematician since...

New research suggests that talking to humpback whales could help us learn how to communicate with aliens. Scientists from the SETI Institute, University of California Davis, and the Alaska Whale Foundation have been conversing with a humpback whale named...

The ancient Greeks measured time in part because human beings have felt the need to track the passage of their hours and days since time immemorial, prompted certainly by the need to plant things at the appropriate time, on...

Phineas Gage, a railroad worker, suffered a traumatic incident at work on September 13, 1848. An iron bar shot through his head, puncturing and deforming a large part of his brain. Now, for the first time, scientists have reconstructed...

A woman had been dealing with belly pain for ten days before showing up to the emergency room in France. The doctors suspected something unusual after examining her. As it turned out, she was in the second part of...

Greek grandmothers, or "yiayias," in their accumulated wisdom and vast experience, have been known to use homemade remedies for millennia.

To further develop artificial intelligence (AI) and make it smarter, scientists are now blending ordinary machine learning with a fancy 3D human brain model instead of using high-tech computers alone. This model is not an actual brain but a...

In a recent study, scientists proposed two potential ways to use energy from black holes. They've discovered methods to draw out energy from black holes by utilizing their spinning and gravitational characteristics. Lead researcher Zhan Feng Mai, a postdoctoral scientist...

Greek scientist George K. Giakos, professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been selected as one of the world’s top AI industry scientists by the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Alliance (AIIA). The designation is given to scholars and scientists who the...

Hellas Planitia, often referred to simply as Hellas, is a crater on the planet Mars named after Greece. It was originally discovered in 1867 when viewed through a telescope on Earth. According to NASA, Hellas Planitia spans approximately 1,400 miles...