Who built Europe’s first cities?
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Click Here to Read:  Who built Europe’s first cities? Clues about the urban revolution emerge: Around 6,000 years ago, a group known as the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture developed egalitarian settlements north of the Black Sea and created the region’s earliest urban centres. Then, after two millennia, they vanished. By Emma Marris on the Nature website on January 7, 2025.

A map of the approximate extent of the Neolithic Cucuteni-Trypillian culture.Image: Saukkomies at English Wikipedia.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

How Archaeologists Discovered Europe’s Oldest-Known Book, Revealing Never-Before-Seen Insights Into Ancient Religion and Philosophy
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Click Here to Read: How Archaeologists Discovered Europe’s Oldest-Known Book, Revealing Never-Before-Seen Insights Into Ancient Religion and Philosophy: Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact by Teresa Nowakowski on the Smithsonian Magazine website on January 15, 2025

Derveni papyrus. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

‘They just got my uncle’
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Click Here to Read: ‘They just got my uncle’: Immigration arrests spark fear among farmworkers in Central Valley by By Rachel Uranga and Andrea Castillo in the Los Angeles Time on January 11, 2025.

 Edison, Kern County, California. 17-year-old boy agri. [sic] worker sacking early potatoes after mechanical potato digger on large-scale potato ranch. Kern County planted 27,250 acres in potatoes (1940).Image: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Photographer  Dorothea Lange.

New Superconductive Materials Have Just Been Discovered
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Click Here to Read: New Superconductive Materials Have Just Been Discovered: Three exotic new species of superconductivity were spotted last year, illustrating the myriad ways electrons can join together to form a frictionless quantum soup by Charlie Wood on the Wired website on January 12, 2025.

Levitation of a magnet on a superconductor Image: Julien Bobroff (user:Jubobroff), Frederic Bouquet (user:Fbouquet), Jeffrey Quilliam, LPS, Orsay, France. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.