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The 2,000-year-old fresco in Pompeii showing what may be an ancestor of modern pizza. Image credit: Pompeii archeological park.

Pompeii Fresco Depicts ‘Possible Ancestor’ of Italian Pizza

Jul 11, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

A 2,000-year-old still life fresco depicting a flat focaccia (Italian flatbread) has been found among the ruins of Pompeii, an ancient Roman city frozen...

$X-ray powder diffraction mapping at multiple length scales revealed the unusual presence of lead(II) formate in several areas of The Night Watch. Image credit: Gonzalez et al., doi: 10.1002/anie.202216478.$

Unusual Lead Compound Detected in Rembrandt’s Most Famous Painting

Jan 31, 2023 by News Staff

The Night Watch, painted in 1642 and on view in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, is considered Rembrandt’s most famous work. In new research, scientists...

Nagaraj & Kejriwal defined and measured the differences between male character prevalence and female character prevalence using three robust measures of prevalence, on a corpus of copyright-expired literary texts from the Project Gutenberg English-language corpus. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

Male Characters are Four Times More Prevalent in Pre-Modern Literature than Female Characters: Study

Apr 29, 2022 by News Staff

A duo of scientists from the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California has analyzed the publicly available English-language...

Yu et al report a method to translate amino acid sequences into audible sound, use the representation in the musical space to train a neural network, and then apply it to generate protein designs using artificial intelligence. Image credit: Yu et al, doi: 10.1021/acsnano.9b02180.

Researchers Translate Proteins into Musical Compositions, and Back

Jul 8, 2019 by News Staff

A team of scientists at MIT has developed a system for converting protein sequences into audible sound that resembles musical passages. Then, reversing...

Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, unknown date (16th century), Giovan Ambrogio Figino, red chalk or sanguine drawing. Image credit: Museum of Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, Italy / Ministero dei Beni e delle Attivita’ Culturali e del Turismo.

Leonardo da Vinci Suffered from Ulnar Neuropathy, Study Says

May 7, 2019 by News Staff

Leonardo da Vinci suffered a disease in his late career that affected his ability to hold palettes and brushes to paint with his right hand; although this...

The Landscape (Paesaggio), inv. 8P, by Leonardo Da Vinci.

Leonardo da Vinci was Ambidextrous, Researchers Say

Apr 19, 2019 by News Staff

Leonardo da Vinci was left-handed, but he wrote and painted with both hands, according to new research from the Opificio delle Pietre Dure of Florence,...

The Servants Drive a Herd of Yahoos into the Field by Louis John Rhead. Image credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Yahoo in Gulliver’s Travels Represent 18th Century Description of Sasquatch, Researcher Says

Sep 24, 2018 by News Staff

Australian National University researcher Debbie Argue may have solved one of English literature’s most enduring mysteries: Jonathan Swift’s inspiration...

Did Mona Lisa Suffer from Hypothyroidism?

Sep 4, 2018 by News Staff

In a paper published in the September 2018 issue of the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Brigham and Women’s Hospital researcher Mandeep Mehra and University...

Sonny & Cher performing the song ‘The Beat Goes On’ on Dutch TV program ‘Fanclub,’ February 4, 1967. Image credit: A. Vente / Beeld & Geluid Wiki / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Male Artists Sing about Romantic Love and Sex More Often than Female Performers

May 23, 2017 by News Staff

An analysis of song lyrics from 1960 through 2008 reveals that male artists sing about both romantic love and sex more often than female artists. However,...

Mark Rylance, Brie Larson, Leonardo Dicaprio, Alicia Vikander at the 88th Oscars. Image credit: ABC Television Group / CC BY-ND 2.0.

Psychology Researchers Reveal How to Win an Oscar

Feb 6, 2017 by News Staff

If you want to win an Oscar it is best to be an American actor in a movie that portrays American culture. That is the conclusion of a paper by an international...

Graham. Image credit: Transport Accident Commission of Victoria, Australia.

Graham: Hypothetical Human Who Can Survive High-Speed Car Crash

Jul 25, 2016 by News Staff

Australian artist Patricia Piccinini, trauma surgeons and crash investigation experts have collaborated to produce ‘Graham,’ an educational tool for...

Roman mosaic in Pompeii. Image credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen.

Halcyon Days: Ancient Greek Theater Helps Scientists Reconstruct Past Climate

Mar 7, 2014 by News Staff

According to a new study led by Dr Christina Chronopoulou from the National and Kapodestrian University of Athens, the open air plays of the ancient Greeks...

The Small Madonna of Foligno by Raphael, 1507.

Small Madonna of Foligno: Previously Unknown Painting by Raphael Discovered

Feb 3, 2014 by News Staff

A previously unknown painting by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, an Italian painter and architect better known as Raphael, has been identified by Granada University...