Finding fossils usually means months of fieldwork, a hammer, and a lot of patience. In Finnmark, Norway’s northernmost region, it took none of that. According to the University of Cambridge, a cluster of rocks had broken loose from a cliff above a sheep field. When they split open on landing, they exposed a fossil of […]
Buscar fósiles suele significar meses de trabajo de campo, martillo y paciencia. En Finnmark, la región más septentrional de Noruega, esta vez no hizo falta tanto. Según la Universidad de Cambridge, varias rocas se habían desprendido de un acantilado en un prado de ovejas y, al partirse en la caída, dejaron a la vista un […]
A principios de los años ochenta, un equipo yugoslavo y estadounidense abrió una trinchera de 16 por 20 metros en una loma cercana a la localidad serbia de Opovo. Entre 1983 y 1989 sacó a la luz seis casas neolíticas, total o parcialmente, y de ahí salió un retrato que ha durado hasta hoy: un […]
Los quarks, los componentes más pequeños conocidos de la materia, nunca se ven solos. Son alrededor de mil millones de veces más pequeños que un átomo y solo existen encerrados en partículas mayores como los protones y los neutrones, de modo que nadie ha podido observarlos de forma directa. Esa imposibilidad de aislarlos tiene un […]
Todo empezó con un poco de carbón. En la excavación de Kongefaret 8, en la meseta de Svinesund (Halden, sureste de Noruega), la directora del proyecto, Kjersti Væge, se fijó durante sus rondas diarias en restos de carbón y piedras agrietadas por el fuego que asomaban del suelo. El equipo del Museo de Historia Cultural […]
The eviction of an 87-year-old woman from her Madrid home has highlighted a political paralysis that has thwarted efforts to resolve Spain's chronic housing crisis, fuelling debate before next year's election.
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In the early 1980s, an American-Yugoslav team dug a trench roughly the size of a tennis court — 16 by 20 meters (52 by 66 feet) — into a low hill near the village of Opovo, in northern Serbia. Between 1983 and 1989, they uncovered six houses, whole or partial, from a settlement dating to […]
Quarks, the smallest known building blocks of matter, are never seen alone. They are roughly a billion times smaller than an atom and exist only locked inside larger particles such as protons and neutrons — no one has ever observed one in isolation. That impossibility has a name, confinement, and a strange consequence: try to […]
A new report from Spain's immigration watchdog has shown that the country is nearing the 8 million residency card threshold, with new data revealing interesting trends among British and American residents.
The team wasn’t even looking for a grave. Kjersti Væge, project director at the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo, was overseeing a dig at Kongefaret 8, on the Svinesund plateau near Halden, in southeastern Norway — a few kilometers from the Swedish border. The site was thought to hold a Stone […]
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Wednesday praised Morocco for bolstering border security amid fresh rumours of another migrant rush to Ceuta, a day after admitting Moroccan "border control failed" during July's mass crossing.
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Nobody expects to find a two-thousand-year-old fortification in the courtyards of a working hospital. But that is what archaeologists have uncovered at the Hôtel-Dieu, on the Île de la Cité, the island in the Seine where Notre-Dame stands. The wall runs for about 20 meters (roughly 65 feet) and shows clear signs of having burned […]
Nadie esperaría encontrar una fortificación de hace más de dos mil años en los patios de un hospital, pero es lo que han sacado a la luz los arqueólogos que trabajan en el Hôtel-Dieu, en la isla de la Cité, a un paso de Notre-Dame. Se trata de un muro de piedra y madera conservado […]
The eviction of an elderly disabled woman from her lifelong apartment after an investment firm bought the property and raised her rent more than fivefold has sparked nationwide outrage and protests in the Spanish capital.
In late 2025, conservators from Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum brought an unassuming object to the Diamond Light Source synchrotron in Oxfordshire: a terret, a small bronze loop that Iron Age chariots used to keep a horse’s reins from tangling. It looked modest. It was nearly 2,000 years old. And under X-ray analysis, it turned out to […]
A finales de 2025, un equipo de conservadores del Museo Ashmolean de Oxford llevó hasta las instalaciones del sincrotrón Diamond Light Source, en Oxfordshire, un objeto de apariencia modesta pero de casi 2.000 años de antigüedad: un terret, la anilla de bronce que en los carros de la Edad del Hierro guiaba las riendas del […]
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