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Archaeologists Found an Ancient Roman Camp Outside the Empire’s Known Limits
It’s one of only four known Roman camps in the Netherlands and was really just a rest stop between larger fortifications.
A Tomb Once Said to Hold ‘Jesus’s Midwife’ Might Instead Hold Ancient Royalty
For centuries, Christian devotees visited a tomb, believing it to belong to an apocryphal Biblical figure. A new study posits ...
This Particle Isn’t Following the Rules of Physics. Maybe the Rules Are Wrong.
After six years of collecting data, the muon g-2 experiment released its results and could chart a new path for particle ...
A New Type of Propulsion Could Revolutionize Space Travel
Humanity owes a debt of gratitude to the chemical rockets that have launched satellites, astronauts, and entire space ...
Researchers Used a 1,500-Year-Old Map to Find a Lost City
Starting in 2021, a research team led by Musallam R. al-Rawahneh—an associate professor of archeology and ancient Near East ...
A New Theory Says Time Has Three Dimensions. It ‘Really Messes Up’ What We Know About the Cosmos, Scientists Say
Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem inconsistent with each other or don’t quite line up. And in other cases the rules ...
Some Black Holes May Be Portals Through Spacetime In Disguise
For years, scientists have theorized that some black holes could actually be wormholes, and a new study shows that this space ...
Something Deep in Our Galaxy Is Pulsing Every 44 Minutes. No One Knows Why.
“ASKAP J1832–0911 is currently the only LPT detected with (pulsed) X-ray emission — perhaps unsurprisingly, given its extreme ...
Archaeologists Found a Viking Amulet That’s Over 1,000 Years Old
They didn’t just find an amulet. There were also bracelets, rings, pearls, and a necklace made of coins, all stashed in an ...
In Hyundai’s $7.6 Billion Factory, Your Coworkers Could Be Robots
Hyundai’s multi-billion-dollar factory in Georgia is leaning on both to continue its upward trajectory in the electric ...
The True Shape of the Universe Is Flat, According to Science—And Ancient Geometry Proves It
Mathematical evidence indicates that our universe is flat, but it could be infinitely big, as well. You can figure out if an ...
Archaeologists Were Searching a Forest in the Clouds—and Found 100 Structures From an Ancient City
The civilization was known for sophisticated urban centers, ceremonial platforms, cliffside burial structures, and ...