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Pyramids, pharaohs, and the first great cities.
While getting ready for a camping trip, an amateur astronomer spotted a possible crater. It appears to be a match, pending microscopic results.
Read this story →July 18, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend
Read this story →Women on ancient Roman farms were in charge of making wine, oil — and profits. Historians dismissed them as ‘housekeepers’
Read this story →Stylized masks like this one adorned pre-Inca mummies in Peru hundreds of years ago.
Read this story →The rare footwear discovered in Spain predates the Roman Empire's arrival. The post 2,000-year-old grass sandals discovered in Iron Age ash heap ap…
Read this story →Hosted by actor Tom Hiddleston, Pompeii: Out of Time mixes facts and fiction to bring three real ancient Romans to life.
Read this story →Paul StankusBrookhaven Science Associates  The scientific goal is to enable a new method for observing gravitational waves at low frequencies,…
Read this story →Private buyers are increasingly outbidding museums for fossils.
Read this story →Castles, knights, and kingdoms across the world.
They may understand shapes as well as your toddler. The post Monkeys are surprisingly good at geometry appeared first on Popular Science .
Read this story →Archaeologists have discovered a nearly three-metre-high medieval wall beneath Chester Castle, once part of a fortified thirteenth-century bridge.
Read this story →NASA's Viking 1 mission blazed a crucial trail with its Mars landing on July 20, 1976. Now, half a century later, that trail leads up into the Red…
Read this story →When news reaches the public that a new species has been identified, the chances really are 9 times out of 10 that it’s some deep sea slug or…
Read this story →Explorers, inventors, and new ideas set sail.
Astronomers may have found an unexpected origin for the mysterious "little red dots" that appear to be so common in James Webb Space Telescope surv…
Read this story →Astronomers finally saw the missing link in a black hole’s feeding cycle.
Read this story →Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have gotten a glimpse at the mechanisms that supermassive black holes use to feed themselves.
Read this story →New images of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4696 from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveal gas filaments funneling material into a…
Read this story →The James Webb Space Telescope captured this image of a young galaxy cluster, MACS J0553.4-3342.
Read this story →The James Webb telescope peers through a warped bubble of space-time to study galaxies from the first billion years after the Big Bang.
Read this story →The Euclid space telescope discovery could help researchers understand how black holes grew so massive so quickly in the early universe.
Read this story →Mysterious "little red dots" discovered in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope could harbor buried black holes that fire high-ener…
Read this story →Machines, flight, and world-changing discoveries.
A novel space thruster using superconducting magnets completed its first orbital tests. The technology could in the future propel spacecraft using…
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