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Modern food systems may look stable on the surface, but they are increasingly dependent on digital systems that can quietly become a major point of failure. Today, food must be "recognized" by databases and automated platforms to be transported, sold ...

More than 12,000 years ago, Native American hunter-gatherers were already making and using dice--thousands of years before similar tools appeared elsewhere. These bone "binary lots" acted like primitive coins, producing random outcomes for games of . ...

A mysterious Greek inscription found beneath the Great Mosque of Homs could pinpoint the long-debated location of an ancient sun temple. Scholars now think the mosque sits atop a sacred site that transitioned from pagan worship to Christianity and .. ...