Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

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A newly discovered construction site in Pompeii proves out a theory of why Roman concrete has stood the test of time. The hot-mixing process of concrete creation found in the ancient city was the ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy, the Milky Way, in unprecedented detail. In one month of observations ...

At the end of November, NASA’s next great telescope — the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — officially finished construction. Teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland joined the inner ...

A sans serif font, Secretary of State Marco Rubio just decreed, is simply inadequate for world-class diplomacy. Rubio on Tuesday ordered the agency to immediately cease using the Calibri font and go ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered U.S. embassies and consulates to use Times New Roman font for diplomatic communications, reversing the Biden administration’s switch to Calibri. “Typography ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomatic correspondence to stop using the Calibri font and return to the more traditional Times New Roman effective Wednesday, reversing ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio officially ordered the U.S. State Department to revert to using the Times New Roman font instead of Calibri, The New York Times reported Tuesday. The outlet cited ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered the State Department to revert to using Times New Roman instead of Calibri as the typeface for government communications on Tuesday. The move, outlined in an ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has directed the State Department to go back to using Times New Roman typeface as the standard for official papers, a spokesperson told CNN, in a reversal of the ...