Earth has never been a perfect sphere. It bulges slightly at the equator and flattens slightly at the poles, a shape geodesists call an oblate spheroid — think of a basketball very gently squeezed from top and bottom. That bulge isn’t fixed, though, and a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid […]

Workers were preparing to build a block of flats in Ligornetto, a small town in the canton of Ticino, right on the border with Italy, when they hit the remains of a Roman factory built almost two thousand years ago. Since June 2026, the Archaeology Service of Ticino’s Office of Cultural Heritage has been excavating […]

While Brutus and his allies were stabbing Julius Caesar to death, a good chunk of the Roman working class was having a picnic. They drank wine, pitched makeshift tents out of branches and cloth, and toasted to as many years of life as cups they could down. It was the feast of Anna Perenna, the […]

Mientras Bruto y sus cómplices apuñalaban a Julio César buena parte de la plebe romana estaba de picnic. Bebían vino, montaban tiendas de campaña con ramas y tela, y hacían tantos brindis como años querían vivir. Era el día de Anna Perenna, la fiesta más antigua del calendario romano, y probablemente ninguno de los que […]