Mesolithic Timber Structures Found Beneath Germany's Lake Arendsee
Worked timbers recovered 20 metres below Lake Arendsee date to about 10,500 years ago. Their marks show deliberate woodworking and may indicate construction, but researchers have not yet established whether the remains belonged to huts, platforms, fishing installations or another structure.
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Aurochs Skull on Wooden Stake May Mark Mesolithic Burial Ritual
A nearly complete aurochs skull found driven onto a wooden stake near northern Germany's oldest known grave may point to a previously undocumented hunter-gatherer funerary practice, although researchers stress that the interpretation remains provisional.
Medieval Hot-Air Heating System Found Beneath Swiss Monastery
Archaeologists in Basel have documented a rare, almost completely preserved medieval hot-air heating system beneath the former Gnadental Monastery, including a stone heat-storage chamber, a masonry fire channel and eight controllable openings.
IBM Deepens India Partnerships Around Quantum Computing and AI
IBM is expanding its established research collaborations with IISc and IIT Bombay around quantum-classical workflows, agentic systems, sovereign AI infrastructure and Indic language models, while leaving performance gains and deployment outcomes to be demonstrated.
