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Goethe never knew this 40-million-year-old ant was hidden in his collection

Goethe never knew this 40-million-year-old ant was hidden in his collection Goethe’s centuries-old amber collection has revealed hidden fossil insects—including an extinct ant now providing unprecedented clues about life in ancient forests. - Date: - June 4, 2026 - Source: - Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena - Summary: - Scientists examining amber from Goethe’s personal collection discovered three hidden fossil insects, including an extinct ant preserved in extraordinary detail.

Strange 'spacetime crystals' could give birth to tiny black holes

'Crystals' of space-time could be the origins of certain rare black holes, theoretical study hints

'Crystals' of space-time could be the origins of certain rare black holes, theoretical study hints By taking general relativity into higher dimensions, a trio of physicists has proven that a mathematical pattern of ripples in space-time geometry could give rise to naked singularities and microscopic black holes. A new theoretical study adds fresh support to the idea that a mathematical pattern of ripples in space-time geometry could give rise to naked singularities and microscopic black...

The Plight of the Radical’s Children

The Russian Revolution aimed to dissolve the family. Neither true equality nor true freedom could be achieved, the Bolsheviks argued, until class bonds trumped all other loyalties—that is, until people no longer felt greater responsibility toward their family than they did toward strangers. “The worker-mother must learn not to differentiate between yours and mine,” Alexandra Kollontai, the Soviet Union’s first people’s commissar for social welfare, wrote.

The Amazon can be saved — with concerted action inside and outside Brazil

Raphael Lets Loose

Plenty of faces keep you company in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Raphael: Sublime Poetry”—saints and sinners, popes and poets, ladies in posh frocks or nothing at all—but the most disarming is the first to greet you, that of a boy in a fun hat. With a long, straight nose; soft, bright eyes; and an uplifted chin, he carries the wary confidence of a teenage heartthrob. It isn’t just the face that makes you pause.