February 5, 2025

Bookshop.org Launches Revolutionary E-Book Platform for Independent and Local Bookstores

According to IBISWorld, Amazon accounts for 80% of all online book sales. It’s a well-established fact that the company dominates several e-commerce industries at the expense of independent and small businesses, but Bookshop.org now has a solution for going “head-to-head with Amazon’s Kindle apps.” Just in time for its fifth anniversary, Bookshop has launched a revolutionary ebook platform to support local bookstores.

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February 4, 2025

Researchers Use Laser Technology To Reveal Tattoos on 1,200-Year-Old Peruvian Mummies

Despite seeming like a modern innovation, tattoos have decorated people’s bodies for millennia. Now, with the help of a new laser-based technique, researchers have uncovered ancient tattoos on centuries-old Peruvian mummies like never before. A study recently published in the journal PNAS catalogs this innovative technique, which involves laser-stimulated fluorescence (LSF). Unlike ultraviolet (UV) light, LSF reveals carbon-based black tattoo ink with remarkable clarity, producing images based on the sample’s fluorescence.

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