WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has made a new and significant offer aimed at securing the release of American detainees Paul Whelan and Evan Gershkovich, but Russia has rejected the offer, the State Department said Tuesday.
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Spokesman Matthew Miller did not reveal the details of the offer nor why Russia had turned it down, but the revelation of the proposal was a fresh indication that Washington is continuing to try to negotiate with Moscow to get both men home. Read More...
Astronomers believe they may have found humanity's first stargazing tools. At the National Astronomy Meeting held this week in Nottingham, England, researchers presented evidence that simple apertures like tunnels and doorways might have been used to observe stars more effectively by our prehistoric ancestors. They suggest that 6,000-year-old tombs in Portugal could be an example of this, which would make the structures our oldest known astronomical observatories.
Clay tablets reveal Babylonians discovered astronomical geometry 1,400 years before Europeans Read More...
