Over the past century, archaeologists have uncovered more than 1,600 Proto-Elamite inscriptions, but only about 43 in Linear Elamite, scattered widely across Iran. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...

The Minoan Civilization of Crete, often hailed as Europe’s first literate society, left behind a strange writing system that continues to mystify modern scholars, remaining an unsolved enigma to this ...

Melting and freezing are both physical changes, which are often easy to reverse. To reverse this process, the water would need to be cooled enough until it freezes back into ice. This works because ...

Simply sign up to the Science myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Of all the big ideas floating around — long-termism, degrowth, space colonisation and so on — is any quite as radical as ...

A decorated professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania was surprised when American Airlines pilots whisked him off of the delayed flight he had been ...

A number machine is a way of writing rules using a flow diagram. The equation \(3j - 6 = 9\) can be shown on a number machine by writing out the functions that have been applied to \(j\) in the order ...

Carlo Rovelli: ‘Science is not just about writing equations. It’s about reconceptualising the world’ on facebook (opens in a new window) Carlo Rovelli: ‘Science is not just about writing equations. It ...

Menzio, who according to the Washington Post was dressed in a red Lacoste sweater and blue jeans that day, had been using the time on his connecting flight to Ontario, Canada, to prepare for a talk he ...