Dark Sky Festival Returns to Eleven Mile State Park This Weekend

Excavators working in the necropolis of Saqqara have uncovered what experts believe is the oldest complete board game ever found, buried alongside a high-ranking official from Egypt’s New Kingdom period. The game, dating to approximately 1500 BCE, consists of a carved limestone board, 30 ivory playing pieces, and a set of throwsticks used as dice…

A cooperative of smallholder farmers in the Brong-Ahafo region of Ghana has launched what organizers say is the first AI-powered agricultural commodity exchange in West Africa, connecting over 3,000 rural producers directly with buyers in Accra, Lagos, and Abidjan without relying on traditional commodity brokers. The platform, called HarvestLink, uses a locally trained machine learning…

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have unveiled a flexible thermoelectric fabric capable of converting the heat naturally emitted by the human body into enough electrical current to power small wearable devices. The breakthrough, published this week in the journal Nature Materials, could eliminate the need for batteries in a wide range of health…

A team of German and Tajik mountaineers ascending the rarely-climbed northeast face of Peak Korzhenevskaya in the Pamir range stumbled upon a fully intact Soviet-era research station this month, sealed and apparently abandoned sometime in the early 1980s. The find, at an altitude of approximately 6,200 meters, is being called extraordinary by historians of Cold…

The Austin City Council voted 6-1 Thursday to approve an ambitious pilot program that would phase out traditional traffic signals along the city’s busiest corridors and replace them with coordinated drone swarms capable of directing vehicle flow in real time. The $2.3 billion initiative, dubbed AirFlow ATX, is backed by a consortium of Texas tech…

Telecommunications engineers in Reykjavik scrambled Tuesday after a pod of bottlenose dolphins was found to have repeatedly rammed a subsea fiber optic cable linking Iceland to the European mainland, triggering a six-hour disruption that affected roughly 340,000 internet users across the island nation. The incident, confirmed by Farice, the company operating the FARICE-1 cable, marks…