Congrats to Gizmodo alum John Biggs , now atCrunchgear , for deal a Koran about Marie Antoinette ’s lookout man for $ 300,000 . He first told me about this book about two years ago over a crappy sandwich and pop — it was my goody , I conceive — and detailed how this impressive timepiece was passed down over several generations . Apparently six publishing houses had much more sake in this Scripture than I did , since they give THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND dollar FOR IT ....

25 year ago , the internet was kludged together with duct tape and a dream . Sometimes typing in a URL brought up a website . Sometimes things were just broken . Google , then just a bizarrely named startup , would soon offer a solution . The company bestow “ cache ” links to its hunt results , which impart up a antecedently keep version of web Sir Frederick Handley Page ....

Many of the earthly concern ’s currencies take their names from fairly predictable descent , like the name of weights and measures ( thepound ) ; precious metals ( the Indianrupeeliterally means “ silver ” ) ; royal seal or stamp ( the Scandinaviankronemeans “ crown ” ) ; or the public figure of locally - important the great unwashed ( as in the Venezuelanbolívar ) or places ( dollarcomes from Joachimsthal , a silver mining town in the Czech Republic ) ....

I did n’t take any fancy or enlightening vacation this summer . My wife and I had four weddings to advert in a five - week stretching , plus our daughter ’s first birthday extravaganza . That was enough fanfare for one time of year . So let me live vicariously through you Guy . Where did you jet off to this summer ? Do you recommend it ? What cool stuff and nonsense did you learn ?...

What sound do shooting star make ? It might sound like a stupid question , but it ’s actually rather surprising – and evenly interesting , too . Theansweris that a meteor burning up in our atmosphere can bring forth the auditory sensation of rustling foliage or faint voicelessness to beholder on the ground . The intellect is due to the bright light raise as it burns up . As explained in a late clause inScientific Reports , led by Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico , the procedure is known as photoacoustic coupling ....

The regal Baobab tree , also known as the " Tree of Life , " is a botanical wonder that hold a particular place in the hearts of many acculturation across Africa , Madagascar , and Australia . Its unique appearance , with a monumental luggage compartment and thin branches , has actuate innumerous caption and taradiddle . In this clause , we will delve into 15 captivating fact about the Baobab tree that showcase its noteworthy characteristics and the critical role it play in the ecosystems where it thrives ....

K.M. Ruiz blew people ’s minds with Mindstorm , her novel about psychic champion in a dystopian future . And now she ’s back withthe subsequence , Terminal Point , in which a group of “ rogue psions ” conflict against the powers that be to save the human raceway , led by Threnody Corwin , who has the power to air electricity into anything she rival . We ’ve got an exclusive look at the first chapter ....

That ’s a sharp increase from a prior numeration of 11 deaths from the disaster on Friday , in which a 280 - metrical foot dam own by multinational minelaying hulk Vale S.A. break , flooding the area with almost 12 million three-dimensional meters of sludge - like excavation waste ( known as tailings ) . The Journal publish that one congresswoman , Áurea Carolina , touch on to Vale ’s destroyed dining facility as a “ burying ground ....

Despite being preventable and curable , over 200 million people worldwide are infect with malaria . Sub - Saharan Africa carries a disproportionately high bit of these infection . While drug - resistive malaria has been put down in Southeast Asia , Africa has managed to evade it , until now it would seem . A new newspaper , published in theNew England Journal of Medicine , has documented what the authors say is the first tape case of artemisinin - resistant malaria discovered in Africa ....

Season 8 ofGame of Throneshas really outdone itself in showing audience all the ways that Bran Stark can be weird , mysterious , and sometimes creepy . Being the all - know Three - Eyed Raven , who balances on the line between the past and present , you ’d think he ’d be more outgoing with all the knowledge he seems to possess . But sports fan are still trying to project out what Bran ’s destiny will be and what part he ’ll play in the serial publication ' final two episodes ....

Our savvy of the behaviour and structure of DNA has just involve a monolithic jump forward , thanks to novel high - resolution images that uncover how the molecule writhes , wriggles and wiggle in lodge to squeeze itself into cell cell nucleus . Appearing in the journalNature Communications , the incredible new images tolerate researchers to observe single atom within a DNA atom , tracking their movement as they perform their contortionist dance ....

After yesterday ’s intelligence thatGoogle catch a sex offenderwho’d left no virtual trace of his misdeeds outside of his Gmail account , people were clearly a little conflicted about what that meant in term of privacy . Now , the society has add up out to ( every so slenderly ) clear up their method acting : It ’s not you they ’re tracking , but the illegitimate content itself ....

As the story in the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation’sBook of Legendsgoes , the supernatural being Coyote split the earliest Indians into groups and settle them in unlike places , giving each group a different name and language . These ancients became the ancestors of all the Native American tribes . Now the genome sequencing of Kennewick Man , who fail in Washington State 8500 years ago with a spear power point buried in his hip , has revealed that this ancient North American is indeed an ancestor — or at least a relative — of at least one forward-looking folk : the Colville , who nearly nine millennia afterward still live less than 200 miles from where his trunk was found ....