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Yet Another Absurd Piece of News
Yet another absurd piece of news. The restoration of monuments is being removed from independent expert review. On 12 June a law was signed that, from 1 March 2027, changes the procedure for work on cultural heritage sites. Amendments to Federal Law No. 73-FZ and to the Town Planning
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Language ability and HAQER regions that arose before the split of sapiens and Neanderthals
University of Iowa researchers suggest that the regulatory "volume knobs" in DNA were already present in Neanderthals. According to the authors of the study, the capacity for language depends most strongly on tiny stretches of the genome, the regulatory regions known as HAQERs, which occupy less than a
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Daniil Kudryashov gathers speed at the exhibition of the project “Everything Will Stay Between the Houses” by the Shapito gallery, shown in the space of the Korney gallery
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Belokurov on Milky Way stars possibly originating in an absorbed dwarf galaxy
Vasily Belokurov, one of the 2026 Kavli Prize laureates in astrophysics, is a galactic archaeologist. I have read his article about intruders and learnt that the constancy of the starry sky, to which people have prayed from the Palaeolithic to our own day, is an optical illusion the length of
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A popular genre, a chat about the brain: on Hugh Groucutt's interesting idea that Homo sapiens took shape slowly and gradually, without revolutionary upheavals
In essence, the cognitive revolution of 40,000 to 50,000 years ago is one of the textbook stories. Homo sapiens supposedly grew clever all of a sudden, drew a bull on a cave wall and set off to conquer the planet. The trouble is that anatomically modern humans appeared
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Fendi to show Maria Grazia Chiuri's couture at Rome's GNAM gallery on 9 July
On 9 July Fendi will show its first couture collection by Maria Grazia Chiuri, who moved from Dior last October. The venue is not Paris but Rome's National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, the GNAM. The gallery building itself is a former seventeenth-century monastery of the
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Mass burial of skeletons without skulls found at the Vrable settlement in Slovakia
Vráble in south-western Slovakia, a Linear Pottery culture settlement of 5250-4940 BC, has become the site of a mysterious mass burial. In a ditch at the entrance to one of the quarters lie dozens of skeletons without skulls, among them four pairs and a common grave holding at
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Lyudmila Chursina and Vladimir Basov on the set of the legendary Soviet war drama “The Shield and the Sword” in 1968
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Unofficial Art of the 1980s in Open Storage and a Critique of the Curatorial Concept
The Garage Museum opens a new season of open storage with "Art on the Frequency of the 1980s", running until 23 September. I did not attend the guided tour, only chatted with friends, but that will not stop me from dissecting the curatorial conception. First, given that we
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On 10 June, the centenary of Gaudí's death, Pope Leo XIV consecrated the Tower of Jesus Christ, the central and tallest of the eighteen towers of the Sagrada Família
On 10 June, the centenary of Gaudí's death, Pope Leo XIV consecrated the Tower of Jesus Christ, the central and tallest of the eighteen towers of the Sagrada Família. The basilica has risen to 172.5 metres and has officially become the tallest church in the world. Yet
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