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All the New Science Fiction Books Arriving in October 2026
This October, travel to Pompeii with a slime mold, get into some time travel shenanigans, head to Paradise, and more…
An Old Discovery At Pompeii Is Helping Scientists To Put Dates To Other Big Events In History With Incredible Accuracy
Pliny the Younger witnessed the event, and described it in two letters. They may help us date other, unrelated disasters from our history.
Scientists Dated the Catastrophic Pompeii Eruption Using Only Rocks. Here's How Close They Got
According to Pliny the Younger, Mount Vesuvius erupted on August 24th, 79 CE. That date is now helping geochronologists modify a common mineral dating technique.
Pompeii Is Helping Scientists Sharpen the Clocks Used to Date Earth’s History
An ancient catastrophe is helping geologists tell time across billions of years.
Scientists use Pompeii’s exact eruption date to make volcano dating far more precise
Scientists used precisely recorded date of the Vesuvius eruption that buried Pompeii to make argon-argon dating significantly more accurate.
The eruption that destroyed Pompeii is helping scientists date Earth's history
Historical accounts of the eruption nearly 2,000 years ago provide a precise timeline that allowed recalibration of one of the most versatile dating methods.
Rocks from Pompeii suburb tells a story of destruction—that could help us today
Chemistry and first-person sources are joining forces to date eruptions.
Plimsoll Studios Promotes Andrea Jackson To Oversee Talent Strategy
EXCLUSIVE: Plimsoll Studios, the company behind Disney+’s Pompeii: Out of Time with Tom Hiddleston, has a new head of talent strategy. The company, which also produced Netflix’s Skyscraper Live with A...
South American 'Pompeii': Volcanic eruption 22 million years ago preserved a snapshot of the Andes forming
An enormous volcanic eruption buried a snapshot of the baby Andes mountains, revealing a slow-and-steady growth rate.
Google Earth’s AI deepfake tool only lasted one day
The feature generated believable — but edited — images of the real world.
Doctor's kit found on Mount Vesuvius victim in Pompeii
A man who died in Pompeii during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 was carrying a medical kit with him, new scans reveal.
Rome unleashed an ancient ‘machine gun’ on Pompeii
The polybolos was centuries, if not millennia, before its time.
What did Pompeii smell like before it burned?
Ash from Roman incense burners indicate families burned tree resins from thousands of miles away.
Secrets Behind Rome's Self-Healing Concrete Leads Scientist to Launch Roman-Style Concrete Business
A scientist who figured out the secret behind ancient Rome's self-repairing concrete has recently confirmed his theory at a Pompeii building site
Romans regularly soaked in filthy, lead-contaminated bath water, Pompeii study finds
A study of limescale buildup in an early bathing facility at Pompeii has revealed that the water was replaced only once per day.
January 16, 2026
Some Parkinson’s patients may experience strange symptoms, like smell loss and sleep disorders, decades before diagnosis. Plus, a Pompeii construction site preserved in ash reveals secrets of the famously durable Roman concrete. And, Greenland sharks live for hundreds of years, but their eyes never seem to get old. What can they teach us about aging human eyes?
Secrets Of Ancient Concrete, And... Data Centers In Space?
What can we learn from a Pompeii construction site preserved in ash? Plus, tech companies look to build solar-powered data centers in space.