OpenAI just revealed what its new in-house team, OpenAI for Science, has been up to. The firm has released a free LLM-powered ...

The first writing system appeared roughly 5,000 years ago in Sumer, southern Mesopotamia—modern‑day Iraq. Using a reed stylus ...

While excavating clay cylinders in Syria, archaeologists discovered a rare find: an early writing system. The script has given scholars the new challenge of reinvestigating the timeline of alphabetic ...

A predawn landslide triggered by torrential rains on Indonesia’s main island of Java has killed at least eight people and ...

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An online review system for military family housing only shows 45 posts in the year since it launched, triggering Sen. Elizabeth Warren to write to the Pentagon for plans to better promote the ...

Before the invention of alphabets, literacy was the purview of Egyptian and Mesopotamian scribes trained in complex writing systems that could take years to master. Proto-Sinaitic script, which uses a ...

The Minneapolis-based paper and St. Paul leaders are failing the very citizens they claim to serve. For 1.26 million rural Minnesotans, hospitals, clinics and labor-and-delivery units are vanishing — ...

How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the key tests of our cosmological understanding. A research team led by ...

The search for a primary writing system in 'Star Wars' has a history almost as old as the saga itself. Reading time 7 minutes In the beginning there was the word, and that word was Basic. But just how ...