The Crust Under the Pacific That Counts Dead Stars

The Crust Under the Pacific That Counts Dead Stars

Sep 4, 2026 | Journal

The story is in the floor of the Pacific. Not the photogenic floor — the abyssal one, four or five kilometres down, where black, knobby, slow-growing ferromanganese crusts accumulate atom by atom around a nucleus of whatever was lying around. They are ugly rocks. They...
The Cave at the End of the Mousterian

The Cave at the End of the Mousterian

Sep 3, 2026 | Journal

There is a cave mouth in the municipality of Aguilón, in Zaragoza province, Aragón, and the mouth is the news. AGP5 — Aguilón P5 — sits in the Iberian Range, and on 2 September 2026 the IUCA group at the University of Zaragoza, with Rafael Domingo's team...
The Carbonised Scroll That Read Itself

The Carbonised Scroll That Read Itself

Sep 1, 2026 | Access & Archives

The date on it is older than the library it was buried with. On 25 June 2026, in a lecture room at the Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli Vittorio Emanuele III with Mount Vesuvius still rising in the distance, the Vesuvius Challenge presented the first Herculaneum papyrus...