Archaeologists have found evidence that in 1650 BCE (Middle Bronze Age), a cosmic airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, an ancient walled city in the Jordan Valley close to the north end of the Dead Sea.

The ‘quantum hair’ allows information from behind the horizon to emerge in Hawking radiation, so that an evaporating black hole obeys a property called quantum unitarity.

Linear A is a logo-syllabic script used for administrative purposes on Bronze Age Crete. Together with Cretan Hieroglyphic, it is one of two writing systems created by the Minoan civilization. Upon ...

New research from the University of Birmingham explores the nature of photons -- individual particles of light -- in unprecedented detail.