Birds and scorpions — and an apparently headless human (lower right) — adorn a pillar from one of the buildings excavated at the Neolithic site of Göbekli Tepe, where newly-discovered carved skulls point to unique ritual treatment of the dead. (Credit German Archaeological Institute (DAI))
Fragments of uniquely carved skulls — at least one of which may have also been decorated — have turned up at one of Turkey’s most important Neolithic sites. Investigation in ...read more
Researchers in the Cornish lab at Columbia University examine baker’s yeast, modified to detect pathogens, growing in a petri dish. (Credit: Courtesy of Columbia University Office of Communications and Public Affairs)
Yeast, the ubiquitous little fungus that can seemingly do it all, is doing more.
If you aren’t familiar with yeast’s accolades, here’s a refresher: It gives beer its buzz, it can produce textiles, safer opioids, tasty food and is the workhorse model organi ...read more
With hot, dry and windy conditions continuing, the dangerous Brian Head fire is expected to grow significantly
A giant smoke plume from Utah’s Brian Head Fire is seen streaming across much of the state and on into Wyoming and Colorado in this animation created from images captured by the GOES-West weather satellite on Monday, June 26, 2017. The white arrow in the first frame marks the location of the fire, near the Brian Head ski resort. (Source: RAMSDIS Online/RAMMB/CIRA)
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