7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (639+ words) In 1982, Gary Larson drew one of his most famous Far Side cartoons, a scene of a bovine amusingly standing behind an assemblage of strange-looking implements labeled as “cow tools.” More than 40 years later, a cow in Austria is proving that…...

10+ mon, 4+ week ago   (414+ words) The image credit for this vivid ancient scene goes to Re-Experiencing History, a new AI image generator that produces views of ancient Rome and Greece informed by scholarly sources. “This project fundamentally changes how we perceive and communicate history,” a…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (643+ words) One of Scotland’s can’t-miss distilleries is also one of its most enigmatic. To be clear (and fair), Loch Lomond isn’t working to curate an air of mystery. Its marketing material is quite clear; speak to someone on staff, and they’re…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (816+ words) Look at your face in the mirror, and you’ll see it instantly: the chin. This small, bony prominence at the bottom of our lower jaws is such a mundane feature that we hardly even notice that it’s there — until you…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (325+ words) On a farm distillery outside Arbroath in Angus, Scotland, the new Drummygar distillery is making Clydesdale horses almost as important a part of whisky production as copper stills and oak casks. Their broad hooves have pressed the soil where Drummygar…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago   (535+ words) “The retreat looks less like ‘one disease plus winter’ and more like overlapping infectious diseases and very poor sanitary states in extreme conditions,” added Rascovan, who studies the DNA of ancient pathogens. Pathogen DNA is typically fragmented in ancient human…...