Browsing: Technology
On April 6, the four crewmembers of NASA’s Artemis II mission swooped around the far side of the moon in their Orion spacecraft, disappearing from Earth’s sight and losing all…
Archaeologists have discovered 18 ancient tombs in an Egyptian town along the Mediterranean Sea.The tombs — which were unearthed in Marina el-Alamein (also spelled Alamin), about 60 miles (100 kilometers)…
The two major earthquakes that struck Venezuela just 39 seconds apart on June 24 had slightly different epicenters in north-central Venezuela. The first (M7.2) struck near San Felipe, and the…
Quick factsWhat it is: Centaurus A galaxy (NGC 5128)Where it is: 11 million light-years away, in the constellation CentaurusWhen it was shared: July 6, 2026This image from the James Webb…
Albert Einstein gave us the theory of relativity, explained the photoelectric effect and predicted the existence of gravitational waves. He revolutionized our understanding of space, time and gravity.In fact, he…
Most archaeologists spend time digging in the dirt or piecing together broken artifacts or bones in the lab, attempting to make sense of the past in a painstakingly slow process.…
The future of surgery just scrubbed in. In a groundbreaking medical first, robots designed to move and function like humans have performed surgery on a live patient, successfully completing two…
Tropical forests draw down and store large quantities of CO₂ from the atmosphere. The Amazon rainforest in South America, for example, stores approximately 123 billion tonnes of carbon — more…
In most areas of archaeology, excavators painstakingly dig layer by layer to reveal not just buried artifacts but also charred seeds, broken bones and microscopic grains of ancient pollen. This…
On a Sunday afternoon in April, the main minibus terminal in Sukabumi, Indonesia, looked sleepy from the outside. But in an open space round the back, hundreds of men were…