Complete text of carbonised Herculaneum scroll unlocked for first time

By Crispian Balmer ROME, June 25 (Reuters) - Researchers using artificial intelligence and advanced imaging said on Thursday ...

AI Humanizers Promise More ‘Human’ Writing—But Authenticity Is Hard To Capture

AI humanizers promise to make AI-generated text sound more natural. Learn how they work, why they're popular, and whether ...
New Scientist

Lost books by ancient philosophers recovered from 'unreadable' scrolls

Scrolls from the Roman library of Herculaneum that were carbonised by a volcanic eruption have been read in their entirety ...

Short-form science: University of Washington researchers launch PaperTok to combat AI slop

A University of Washington team is helping scientists tell their own stories with a free tool that converts dense, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Have Deciphered the Surviving Fragments of a 2,000-Year-Old Philosophical Treatise Frozen in Time by Mount Vesuvius’ Eruption

The papyrus manuscript was part of a vast library preserved by volcanic ash. Now, the remaining passages—which examine ethics ...
Scientific American

Ancient Roman scrolls destroyed by Mount Vesuvius digitally unrolled in full for first time

This Silicon Valley-backed venture is unraveling the mangled remains of scrolls ruined by the 79 C.E. eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii ...
Frontiers

How humans and machines make meaning: Exploring neural and computational mechanisms of multimodal language

Language understanding is inherently multimodal. Whether we read, listen, or converse, our brains go beyond words to draw on visual scenes, prosody, prior ...