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A diver in Israel just found another Crusader sword on the seafloor

On a routine swim off Israel’s Mediterranean coast, archaeology graduate student Shlomi Katzin noticed something odd on the seafloor: the hilt of a sword protruding from the sand. Just before the ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Scientists link odd Milky Way center signals to a rare radio source

Astronomers tracing a string of strange radio bursts from the direction of the Milky Way’s center have zeroed in on GCRT J1745-3009, a rare and still poorly understood radio transient that flares ...
IEEE

Odd-One-Out: Anomaly Detection by Comparing with Neighbors

Abstract: This paper introduces a novel anomaly detection (AD) problem aimed at identifying ‘odd-looking’ objects within a scene by comparing them to other objects present. Unlike traditional AD ...
Family Destinations Guide

This Charmingly Odd Kentucky Town Will Steal Your Heart

My Old Kentucky Home State Park centers around Federal Hill, the mansion that inspired Stephen Foster’s famous song. The ...
The Debrief

A Mysterious Roman Artifact Covered in Odd Markings Puzzled Researchers for More Than a Century—Now AI Has Cracked Its Ancient Code

A curious ancient Roman artifact has drawn renewed attention as researchers report finally solving the mystery of its undeciphered markings.
Gothamist

Center for Brooklyn History catalogs thousands of strange artifacts for first time

In a windowless warehouse in Bushwick, archivists, researchers and librarians from the Brooklyn Public Library are huddled around a lightbox. They’re photographing a bronze souvenir bell, barely the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These 12,000-Year-Old Scraps of Elk Hide May Be the World’s Oldest Known Examples of Sewing

The sewn hide, pictured from the front and the back, alongside another hide artifact from Cougar Mountain Cave Richard L. Rosencrance, et al., Science Advances, 2026 Researchers say they may have ...
IEEE

Adaptive Thresholding in EEG Artifact Removal Through Multimodal Fusion: A Multimodal Artifact Subspace Reconstruction Approach

Abstract: The removal of artifacts is essential for improving the quality and reliability of electroencephalogram (EEG) data in academic research. Traditional methods, such as mix source separation ...
Bleeping Computer

Claude LLM artifacts abused to push Mac infostealers in ClickFix attack

Threat actors are abusing Claude artifacts and Google Ads in ClickFix campaigns that deliver infostealer malware to macOS users searching for specific queries. At least two variants of the malicious ...
C&EN

For 50 years, his test has been saving museum artifacts

Andrew Oddy, now in his 90s, holds a magnifying glass as he inspects a series of small artifacts in a plastic organizer on a desk in front of him. Andrew Oddy examines late Roman brooches found in ...
The New York Times

Grand Theft Artifact? A New Game Asks Players to Steal Stolen Art.

Museum heists have a higher calling in Relooted, a video game where players take the repatriation of African artifacts into their own hands. By Zachary Small Thieves made stealing $102 million worth ...