The clay tablet with a game board etched onto it.Image: Vyborg Museum Last month, Russian archaeologists found a secret chamber inside a medieval castle. While exploring this previously unknown area, the archaeologists discovered a clay brick with tracings of what appears to be a medieval board game. Vyborg Castle in RussiaImage: A. Savin/Wikimedia The Swedish-built…

A view of Curiosity’s dusty exterior.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS A new 360-degree panorama captured by the Curiosity Rover is one of its best yet. The photos used to create this mosaic were taken by Curiosity on August 9, 2018, at Vera Rubin Ridge, where the intrepid rover has been working over the past several months. The image…

Photo: gentle07 (Pixabay) It’s long been suspected that hand dryers, especially those quick-drying ones that blast hot air known as jet dryers, are actually way worse at keeping our hands and bathrooms free of disease-causing germs. Worryingly, they could even be spreading illness in hospital bathrooms, new research suggests.  Researchers in the UK, France, and…

These are candlesPhoto: Getty A woman in Connecticut was severely injured earlier this week after mistaking a quarter stick of dynamite for a candlestick. Officials said the woman’s residence lost power during a storm on Thursday night, ABC 7 reported. The family wasn’t able to buy emergency lights because Home Depot was closed, but according…

Screenshot: Tor Project At long last, the Tor Project is releasing an official web browser for Android users. The new Android app is available now as an alpha release in Google’s Play Store and on the experimental releases section of the Project’s download page. Even if you don’t use the Tor Browser to browse the…

The skull and antlers of the extinct Great Elk pulled from a lake in Northern Ireland.Image: Ardboe Gallery A pair of lucky Northern Irish fishermen pulled in this skull with enormous antlers, measuring a whopping six feet in length. The extraordinary specimen belonged to the extinct Great Elk, which hasn’t been seen in Ireland for…

Image: Bru-nO (Pixabay) People who use dietary supplements containing an ingredient called higenamine are playing with fire, suggests a new study. There’s often no telling just how much higenamine is packed into a single pill, it found, meaning people could be dosing themselves with dangerously high levels of the plant-based stimulant. The researchers behind the…

Photo: Getty When President Trump first tossed out the idea of starting a trade war with China, there was a serious chance those taxes would impact the prices of gadgets back at home. And wouldn’t you know it, after seeing an outline of products that would be hit by the government’s 25 percent tax on…

Photo: Mike Mozart/Flickr Employees at one of the nation’s largest telecommunications companies are being urged by their bosses to sign a petition opposing net neutrality legislation passed one week ago by the California legislature. In an email Thursday to employees at Frontier Communications—a leading provider of internet, TV, and phone services in 29 states—West Region…