Brain organoids were first developed in 2013 by researchers in Austria. Over the past decade, they’ve become a widely used tool for studying some of the most treatment-resistant disorders of the human mind, including autism spectrum disorder, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer’s disease. Their value lies in offering a window into human brain biology that would otherwise be entirely...

Researchers have identified 142 clay ornaments made by Natufian hunter-gatherers roughly 15,000 years ago in what is now Israel, pushing back the known timeline of symbolic clay use in Southwest Asia by several millennia. The discovery also produced the largest collection of Paleolithic fingerprints on record, offering an unusually direct link to the individu...

The Italian government gave its approval for the bridge’s construction last year, backing what Transport Minister Matteo Salvini has called “the biggest infrastructure project in the West.” The publicly funded venture, priced at nearly $16 billion, will link mainland Italy with Sicily across one of the Mediterranean’s most geologically volatile stretches of water. Co...

The president of Britain’s largest motoring organization resorted to storing his car keys inside a microwave oven after a sophisticated electronic attack allowed thieves to steal his wife’s luxury SUV from the driveway of their Hertfordshire home. Edmund King, who leads the Automobile Association, confirmed he now places a signal-blocking pouch

The revival of a long-lost piece of music is often treated as a form of restoration. But a study published in Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts suggests that what is recovered is the text alone, not the tradition. When musicians encounter a rediscovered work, they inherit notes on a page, not the accumulated understanding of how ...