This experiment rebuilds some of the earliest writing materials and then forces them through a test their inventors never could have imagined, the modern postal system. Clay tablets, handmade plant ...

After much deliberation over a suitable name, he settled on Papyrus, a tribute to the Egyptian bark of the Cypress papyrus tree — the very genesis of paper, a material durable enough for text to ...

It appears that even the most skilled scribes of ancient Egypt made mistakes. A recent discovery at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has revealed that ancient Egyptian artisans used a correction ...

Ancient Egyptians have been found to have used a 3,000 year-old "Tipp-Ex" like correction fluid to fix artistic errors on ...

Covering bedding for the Strategist for several years, I’ve tested every style of sheet on the market. Cotton percale quickly became my favorite for its crisp and lightweight weave, but the plain ...

If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don’t just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus Gellius, who lived in the 2nd century CE, gives us a ...

Carley Millhone is a writer and editor based in the Midwest who covers health, women's wellness, and travel. Her work has appeared in publications like SELF, Greatist, and PureWow. Researchers haven't ...

Proton has launched Proton Sheets, an encrypted spreadsheet tool inside Proton Drive. It offers real-time collaboration, formulas, charts, and full end-to-end encryption. Sheets is rolling out ...

Deep within a particle accelerator, theoretical physicist Giorgio Angelotti is hard at work. He sets a black cylinder on a mount, bolts it down, then runs through some safety checks before retreating ...

The kitchen-sized Institut de Papyrologie at Paris’ ancient Sorbonne University is one of the oddities of modern science. In an era of high-budget research, the institute operates with a few dollars’ ...