The dolia defossa wine cellar of Villa Regina (Boscoreale).
Emlyn Dodd, courtesy Ministero della Cultura – Parco Archaeologico di Pompei
Roman wines may have looked and tasted better than long assumed. The answer lies in their use of clay jars, a technique still used in modern winemaking in Georgia.
Screenshot from the video game ‘The Stanley Parable’.
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Songwriting, theatre, rap and graphic novels have won literary awards, but video games remain an overlooked part of the wider literary canon.
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There are major gaps in space law, which could have dire consequences for space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life.
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President Tayyip Erdogan and his party suffered their biggest electoral blow in a nationwide local vote that reasserted the opposition as a political force.
Still from the film ‘The spirit of the beehive’, by Victor Erice.
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Cinema offers a unique way to pin down 500 years of Spain’s fragmented, shifting identity from 1492 to 1992.
Bonus afterglow led to boosted sales revenues, research carried over three years shows.
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Bonus afterglow led to boosted sales revenues and greater customer satisfaction across the board, research carried over three years shows.
Left, ‘Orange and Yellow’ by Mark Rothko, 1956. Right, day dress in orange wool crepe, by Cristóbal Balenciaga, 1967.
Buffalo AKG Art Museum/Cristobal Balenciaga Museoa
Cristobal Balenciaga’s work developed alongside abstract artistic movements, which had a profound influence on his designs.
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Around 98% of all research is published in English, posing a serious problem for the global scientific community.
African migrants attempting to flee to Europe disembark in Sfax from a vessel belonging to the Tunisian coastguard, after having been intercepted at sea, on 10 August 2023.
Fethi Belaid/AFP
The argument is a familiar one: African citizens are unaware of the risks tied to the perilous journey across the Mediterranean and the West must therefore enlighten them.
While AI therapists and carers are rapidly gaining ground, it would be mistaken to consider their behaviour as empathetic.
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Artificial Intelligence’s capacity to mimic and identify emotions is worlds away from the human one to feel.
How can we explain the paradox of a matter that can be sticky and slippery?
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How can the same material, ice, have diametrically different physical properties - sticking and sliding?
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Laughter is one of the healthiest things a child can do, but it means very different things at different stages of brain development.
‘Are these even on?’: Gabrielius Landsbergis, Lithuania’s minister of foreign affairs, asks to be heard in Brussels.
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Lithuania doesn’t often set the agenda, yet it has been warning that Russia would invade Ukraine since 2008.
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The sub-zero area of Antarctica has shrunk by over 100km since the 1950s.
Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory in Sweden, where KBS-3 repository technologies have been tested.
Anna Storm
Spent nuclear fuel remains dangerous for so long that languages can disappear and humanity’s very existence cannot be guaranteed. So how do we communicate information about repositories into the future?
Greek landscapes are quite attractive for many digital nomads.
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Digital nomads are often maligned by locals, but properly planned visa schemes can make sure everyone benefits.
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Whether LGBTQIA+, or sceptical of romantic love as the best foundation for their family, many are looking to the Internet to find co-parenting partners with whom to raise a child.
‘The Drunkenness of Noah’ by Giovanni Bellini.
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For nearly 500 years, priests and imams justified slavery on the basis of a misunderstood passage of the Bible.
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Making contacts and increasing visibility at work is not the same for men and women.
A pine plantation and hedgerow as seen from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
Alexandre Changenet, 2023
The SUPERB project, part of the EU’s Horizon programme, aims to restore thousands of hectares of forest landscape across Europe.