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A Student’s Hunch Uncovered a 3,700-Year-Old Ritual Site
17+ hour, 5+ min ago (615+ words) George Bird knew there had to be more to the six-foot-tall standing stone. A six-foot-tall standing ceremonial stone in a Derbyshire forest had one archaeology enthusiast searching for more. Well, in 2024, 24-year-old student George Bird found plenty, with the help…...
Navy Researchers Scanned the Seafloor and Tracked a Ping. Then They Found a Staggering 500-Year-Old Shipwreck.
13+ hour ago (373+ words) At 8,200 feet underwater, it’s the deepest wreck ever found around France’s coastline. Routine sonar investigations of the French seafloor led to the accidental discovery of a 16th-century shipwreck roughly 1.5 miles off the coast of Ramatuelle. The wreck, nestled 8,200 feet underwater,…...
There’s a Vast Network Beneath Your Feet—And It Could Be Conscious, Some Theories Claim
20+ hour, 43+ min ago (1714+ words) It’s so large that it could stretch from the sun to Pluto an unfathomable number of times. These AM fungi are essential for plants across the world, as they play a major role in their sustenance. For instance, mycorrhizal fungi…...
New Science Is Forcing Us to Rethink the Moment We Die
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (165+ words) On the latest episode of “The Astounding Pop Mech Show,” Andrew Daniels, Shawn Gorman, and John Gilpatrick discuss what it really means to die. All life ends in death—or does it? A new Pop Mech story, “A Groundbreaking Scientific…...
A ‘Monster’ Disaster Could Hit This Fall, Research Shows. It May Rival One of the Strongest Ever Recorded.
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (1709+ words) This could affect millions. Despite their disarming nicknames, El Niño and La Niña—the two sides of the climatic coin known as the El Niño Southern Oscillation, or ENSO—are deadly serious. The engine at ENSO’s heart are the easterly…...
Archaeologists Found Ancient Humans on a Mediterranean Island—but They Shouldn’t Have Survived There
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (259+ words) New research reveals surprising evidence of human habitation on Malta more than one thousand years earlier than previously thought possible. Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: The mystery began back in 2019 when archaeologists uncovered evidence of shellfish meals,…...
America’s Biggest Volcanic Threat May Come Without an Eruption
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (553+ words) These fast-moving mudflows can devastate towns in a matter of minutes. After Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, experts were faced with a precarious question: How can we best prepare for when—not if—the next volcanic eruption in the Cascade…...
A Woman Went for a Casual Walk—and Accidentally Discovered a One-in-a-Million Treasure
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (526+ words) 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 stroll in 2024, the woman happened upon a roughly 900-year-old stash of more than 2,150 medieval silver…...
Engineers Widening an Autobahn Just Unearthed a Forgotten Roman Superhighway
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (415+ words) A forgotten Roman road just resurfaced, and experts think there’s still more buried nearby. Ahead of construction work on an autobahn in southwest Germany, crews discovered they weren’t the first engineers to consider the plateau near the town of Drackenstein…...
Ancient Egyptians Believed Baboons Were Connected to the Moon. Scientists Say They Were Right.
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (167+ words) There’s a good reason Egyptians considered Hamadryas baboons to be zoomorphic images of the lunar god Thoth on Earth. In sum, the fur of hamadryas baboons is the color of moonlight. “Some zoomorphic forms of the gods can be associated…...