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Scientists Found Evidence of a 138-Foot-Deep Lake in the Middle of an Enormous Desert
According to the release, the ancient lake likely reached its largest size around 8,000 years ago during a time of heavy ...
Archaeologists Found a 1,000-Year-Old Buddha Statue With Stunning Details
Depicted by the statue is the Buddha Amitābha, a prominent figure in Mahayana Buddhism.
The Most Important Facts (And Myths) About Your Car Battery
Even if you're driving a gas guzzling SUV, electricity remains crucial to driving a car. Thanks to modern-day electric batteries, drivers no longer have to turn an engine over by hand. It now all ...
Tesla Is Building a UFO-Themed Supercharger to Bring Some Alien Energy to the Desert
The company is quenching a supercharger desert near Roswell, NM, with a special Cyber-UFO-themed station.
An A.I. Fooled Humans and Passed the Turing Test. But It's a Red Herring for the Singularity.
A study by scientists at UC San Diego found that OpenAI’s large language model GPT-4.5 passed for human 73 percent of the ...
Scientists Built Holograms You Can Manipulate with Your Hands. This Is How the Future Feels.
“What we see in films and call holograms are typically volumetric displays,” Elodie Bouzbib, the first author on the paper ...
Tesla Is Trying to Build an Ecological Paradise. Too Bad It Literally Stinks.
Elon Musk is looking to bolster the ecosystem surrounding Austin’s Tesla factory. But his environmental track record sends a ...
Archaeologists Excavating a Maya City Found a 1,700-Year-Old Altar. It Shouldn’t Have Been There.
Tikal is a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of Guatemala—far flung from Mexico’s ancient city of Teotihuacan. The ...
A Queen Bee Lives 20 Times Longer Than Her Workers. Scientists Want to Steal Her Secrets For Humanity.
Queens eat royal jelly, which has antioxidants and less sugar than the honey tkhat workers eat. This is thought to be part of ...
A Woman Went for a Casual Walk—and Accidentally Discovered a One-in-a-Million Treasure
A ceramic pot turned into a jackpot for a woman on a walk in the Kutnohorsk Region of the Czech Republic. While out on a ...
A Construction Crew Was Renovating a Soccer Field—and Found the Bodies of 150 Ancient Roman Soldiers
When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, ...
Mathematicians Wrote a Proof for a 100-Year-Old Problem—and May Have Just Changed Geometry
The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch ...