Researchers with the Vesuvius Challenge at the University of Kentucky just fully translated a scroll from the Herculaneum for ...

An 18th-century archaeological dig uncovered a library of intact but charred scrolls. Their contents have been unreadable ...

Explore how chassis codes reveal key details about your vehicle, from manufacturing origin to model variations and engine types. Learn the basics of decoding letters and numbers so you can better ...

Artificial intelligence is no longer just writing emails, generating images, or powering chatbots. Researchers are now increasingly using AI to unlock historical secrets hidden inside centuries-old ...

Historic messages and documents obscured by incomprehensible ciphers can be found in libraries and archives all over the world. Artificial intelligence is helping historians crack open these ...

If you were in high school or college in the 2000s, chances are there was at least one guitar-toting student in your class—and what are the odds that when lunch break came, the song they played to ...

The U.S. military uses letters in aircraft names (e.g., B, P, F) to identify the primary purpose or mission of the aircraft. Early designations were cumbersome, leading to a simplification in 1924 ...

When students struggle with reading, educators often respond by relying on texts at their “instructional level.” But this well-intentioned approach can slow progress and limit access to the ...

Google Translate is getting better at the messy parts of language. A new update rolling out today uses Gemini AI to help you decode idioms, slang, and phrases that never translate cleanly. Instead of ...

As agentic AI workflows multiply the cost and latency of long reasoning chains, a team from the University of Maryland, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Columbia University and TogetherAI has found a ...

“I am Hugo, and I’m pretty sure I’m the first ever person in my family to get my brain rotted,” says Hugo Lee, a nine-year-old student at Lion’s Club International School in Tin Shui Wai. It might ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam shows how gravitational waves from black holes can be used to reveal the presence of dark matter and help determine its properties. The key is ...