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Gargantuan sunspot 15-Earths wide shoots powerful X-class flare toward Earth, triggering radio blackouts (www.livescience.com)

Gut bacteria sometimes get people drunk, leading to DUIs and liver disease (www.livescience.com)

1,900-year-old Roman legionary fortress unearthed next to UK cathedral (www.livescience.com)

1,900-year-old Roman legionary fortress unearthed next to UK cathedral (www.livescience.com)

Archaeologists in England have discovered several Roman ruins buried next to a cathedral in Exeter....

3,500-year-old 'rest house' used by ancient Egyptian army discovered in Sinai desert (www.livescience.com)

1st Americans came over in 4 different waves from Siberia, linguist argues (www.livescience.com)

Indigenous people entered North America at least four times between 12,000 and 24,000 years ago, bringing their languages with them, a new linguistic model indicates. The model correlates with archaeological, climatological and genetic data, supporting the idea that populations in early North America were dynamic and diverse....

Why do people hear their names being called in the woods? (www.livescience.com)

Deepest blue hole in the world discovered, with hidden caves and tunnels believed to be inside | Live Science (www.livescience.com)

Mexico’s Taam Ja’ Blue Hole is the deepest known underwater sinkhole in the world, researchers have discovered — and they haven’t even reached the bottom yet....

Jupiter may be the reason why Earth has a moon, new study hints | Live Science (www.livescience.com)

It would appear that the so-called “great instability” event that wreaked chaos among the planets, sending the gas giants careening through space until they settled into the orbits we know today, occurred between 60 and 100 million years after the birth of the solar system. This is the conclusion of some careful scientific...

Plato's burial place finally revealed after AI deciphers ancient scroll carbonized in Mount Vesuvius eruption (www.livescience.com)

The decipherment of an ancient scroll has revealed where the Greek philosopher Plato is buried, Italian researchers suggest....

Why do people hear their names being called in the woods? (www.livescience.com)

The phenomenon of hearing intelligible voices or noises in meaningless background noise is known as “auditory pareidolia.” The sources of this noise vary; they may include electric fans; running water; airplane engines; the hums of washing machines; or white-noise machines, according to audiologists. It is an auditory...

Plato's burial place finally revealed after AI deciphers ancient scroll carbonized in Mount Vesuvius eruption (www.livescience.com)

The bird that came back from the dead by evolving twice [LiveScience] (www.livescience.com)

It’s great that this article linked to the original journal article. Nice that it’s open access, too! So good to see that it’s becoming more common. The academic publishing business is just so… well, in a word, fucked.

Hundreds of black 'spiders' spotted in mysterious 'Inca City' on Mars in new satellite photos (www.livescience.com)

Secondo un nuovo studio, l'universo potrebbe essere dominato da particelle che interrompono la causalità e si muovono più velocemente della luce, (www.livescience.com)

Con la natura delle due componenti più sfuggenti dell’universo in discussione, i fisici hanno proposto un’idea radicale: particelle invisibili chiamate tachioni, che interrompono la causalità e si muovono più velocemente della luce, potrebbero dominare il cosmo.